Club Championships Day 1 - 2 April 2025





The final Wednesday coaching session of the Spring term was given over to the Junior Singles, the first of five events that constitute the 2025 Club Championships. Seventeen players, including most of the Club's top young players, were split into five preliminary round groups from which the top two from each group fought out a knock-out to determine the champion.
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All the top five seeded players won their groups with some comfort but, after that, there were a lot of close matches and at least one enormous shock. The first round of two matches only, saw Rohan Bhide eliminate his Junior British Clubs League team-mate Edward Meacock and Anna Piercey overcoming Chris Farrall.
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The quarter-finals brought a huge shock as Rohan, who has starred in the junior and cadet leagues this season, winning 52 out of his 54 matches, eliminated the top seed Jamie Woodford, a mainstay in the Club's teams in both the Youth and Senior British Leagues. Rohan won 3-1 with the fourth game finishing 11-4. Louis beat George Driscoll 3-0 but the other two quarter-finals were very close affairs. Anna Piercey, in match between two nationally highly ranked girls, did well to take second seed Rachael Iles to a deciding game and in a match between the Prasanna Kumar brothers, Sai ended the hopes of Bharath, reversing the result of their encounter in the Maidenhead League a couple of weeks earlier.
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Rohan very nearly caused another huge upset in his semi-final with Sai, leading 2-1 at one stage before the reigning England Under-10 champion found a further gear and ran out 11-3, 11-5. Meanwhile, Rachael was in full flow as she beat Louis 3-0 and then repeated that scoreline in the final against Sai.