Club Championships Day 3 - 19 May 2026



The senior events of the 2026 Club Championships concluded on Tuesday with the Open Singles.
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A slightly disappointing entry of only fourteen players were allocated into four preliminary rounds groups. Emerging from these groups in top place were the four seeds: Martin Adams, Sai Prasanna Kumar, Hari Gehlot and Amit Kumar​​. The runners-up, Chloe Ireland, Keith Hall, Srinika Selvam and Keeratpreet Walia also qualified for the quarter-finals, the latter following the withdrawal of Robert Zybert.
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The quarter-finals were all won in a straight-forward fashion with Martin defeating Srinika, Hari easing past Keeratpreet and Sai having little difficulty with Chloe although Keith did put Amit under a bit more pressure but still conceded 3-0.
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Onto the semifinals and it was an easy win for Martin over Amit but the other semi-final between Sai and Hari was a really closely fought encounter and although 3-0, the scores read 13-11, 11-7, 21-19 to Sai.
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The final, itself, was even more intense. Martin showed his greater experience winning the first game 11-8 but it was the youthful Sai, still just twelve years of age, who upped his game to take the remaining three games, and the title, 11-5, 11-9, 12-10.
