Crawley, led by Ritchie Venner, retained the Sussex men's Interleague championship and their veterans won gold medals at the Six Villages Centre, Fontwell.

Sussex champion Mayur Majithia again failed to appear, this time due to a leg injury, but Venner came up with an excellent replacement in England No. 34 veteran Terry Haley.

Venner and Haley swept all before them in the first and second stages before beating Crawley's second team in the final 3-0.

Earlier, when Crawley defeated Worthing 3-1, Venner was hard pressed to beat Andy Walker, but the Sussex No.1 survived, winning 11-8 in the fifth game.

Crawley's Barry Gilbert and Fawzi Yousif collected gold medals after winning the veterans' event.

Hastings women and girls teams dominated the female events.

Rose Rainton and Sheila King outgunned South West Sussex in the final 3-0, with Rainton taking revenge on Sarah Stedman, who beat Rainton in the same event last year.

This weekend, Sussex II bid to win division 2 (south) in the county championships when they take on Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at New Malden.

Peter Bartram, Andy Walker, Terry Haley trio, with Sheila King and Sarah Stedman are favourites to win the title.