The 2026 Club Championships commenced on Tuesday with the first two events: Veterans' Singles and Tweenies' Singles.

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The veterans' event attracted fifteen players arranged for the preliminary round into five groups of three with the top two from each group progressing to the knock-out stage. Group winners were Hari Gehlot, Maciej Dlugozima, Amit Kumar, Sue Hayes and Denise Weller, with Milton Makris, Randall Rodrigues, Armando Borges, Robert Zybert and Keith Hall joining them from the runners-up positions.

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Robert conceded his first round match to Armando while Milton beat Randall to join the other six players in the quarter-finals. Results continued to go with seedings right through to the final. In the quarters, Hari beat Denise, Amit beat Milton, Sue beat Armando and Maciej beat Keith. The semi-final saw top seed Hari defeat Amit 3-0 while Sue took one game off Maciej. The final was a closer encounter with Hari winning the first two games, Maciej equalising 2-2 before Hari clinched the deciding fifth game 11-7.

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The Tweenies' event, so called because it is for player of "between" junior and veterans age groups, saw five players play in a round-robin format. The winner was Srinika Selvam who did not drop a game throughout with Eswardev Nekkanti runner-up.

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Next up: Open Doubles next Tuesday (12th) followed by Open Singles the following week (19th).