The annual Club Championships for 2025 has concluded with an array of new champions.

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The blue riband event, the Open Singles, played on Thursday evening 8 May, saw sixteen players arranged into four preliminary round groups. The standard was probably the best ever seen at this event in the Club's history and did not disappoint. The eight fancied players all emerged from the groups to contest the quarter-finals with the best match being played out by two of Cippenham's young guns. Third seed Sai Prasanna Kumar, the national under-11 champion, was edged out 13-11 in the fifth and deciding game by Louis Alexander. However, both made it into the semi-finals after Sai eliminated his older brother Bharath, the fourth seed, in three close games while Ludo Montiel was no match for Louis. Top seed Martin Adams eased past 2017 champion Maciej Dlugozima and second seed Hari Gehlot dropped only one end to Anna Piercey.

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Those present were enthralled by the spectacle of the top semi-final between the experienced Martin and the young Sai. Sai took a two-game lead against the Club's British League captain but Martin fought back to square the match 2-2 with two easy games. The fifth game flowed one way and then the other with both players having and saving match points. It seemed to be over when Sai flashed a drive down Martin's backhand but the veteran somehow managed to get his bat to the ball which arched, out of control, high into the air and then, desperately for Sai, flicked the back edge of the table to keep the match alive. A few points later and Martin luckily again found the edge of the table to end, at 15-13, what was probably the best match ever seen in the Championships. Meanwhile, Hari was making lighter work of Louis but Martin was now in full flow and beat his Berkshire teammate to win his first Cippenham Open Singles title 3-0.

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New champions were also crowned in the other three events. Hari Gehlot, two weeks earlier, had won the Veterans' Singles beating Maciej Dlugozima in the final while the Tweenies' Singles, with a minimal entry, was won by Maciej Burczyk.

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In the intervening week, the Open Doubles resulted in a final between two junior pairs with Louis Alexander and Bharath Prasanna Kumar winning the title against Rachael Iles and Anna Piercey in the final. The beaten semi-finalists were Sai Prasanna Kumar partnered by Maciej Dlugozima, and Paul Elliot with Peter Chipperton.