The senior events of the 2024 Club Championships are now complete, having been played over three consecutive Thursday evenings in May. Each of the four events provided a different winner but, as the Open Singles was dominated by junior players, it remains to be seen whether the Junior Singles, to be played later, will provide an additional name. Such is the quantity of exceptional young players at the Club presently that any one of about eight players could prevail and this suggests that a fifth different winner is quite likely.

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The senior events commenced with the Veterans' Singles, for the over forties, and the Tweenies' Singles for players between junior and veterans' status.  The older age group had an entry of twelve players while only three contested the Tweenies in which Michal Garski defended his title from last year with Maciej Burczyk the runner-up.

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The Veterans' Singles was more keenly contested with the four group winners being Alan Moss, Bas Mocharrafie, defending champion Maciej Dlugozima and Sue Hayes. While Alan and Maciej were comfortable winners of their groups, Sue took five games to dispose of Albert Cheung, who also had a five-gamer against Keith Hall, and Bas need five games to defeat Peter Chipperton, who in turn also need five to get the better of Marek Kik. While Bas beat Sue comfortably 3-0 in their semi-final, Maciej had to work harder to see off Alan's challenge 3-1. Maciej won the final, defending his title, after three close games against Bas.

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The following week it was the turn of the doubles event. Martin Adams and Hari Gehlot put in a rare appearance on this occasion as they were practising for the weekend's VETTS National Masters competition. Martin and Hari duly won their group although runners-up Maciej Dlugozima and Bas Mocharrafie did take a game off them. Rachael Iles and Anna Piercey, the defending champions, also won their group, despite dropping one game to Jarek Skowera and Marek Kik, but the runners-up in that group were the young Prasanna Kumar brothers, Bharath and Sai. The semi-final between Rachael and Anna and Maciej and Bas was a close call with the girls winning in five while Martin and Hari had it slightly easier against Bharath and Sai, winning 3-1. The final was more straight-forward with the more experienced Martin and Hari winning 3-0.

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The final day's play was for the Championship Singles. With only the four group winners going forward into the semi-finals there were bound to be some fancied players left behind. Maciej Dlugozima was one of those as the veterans' champion lost out to 14 years-old Bharath Prasanna Kumar 3-2, 10 years-old Sai Prasanna Kumar, who sensationally won the Maidenhead Closed title a couple of months ago, was another as he lost, also in five, to Troy Williams, while the Tweenies' Singles champion Michal Garski was eliminated by Rachael Iles. Anna Piercey was the other group winner although she was twice taken to a fourth game. The last four standing were therefore all juniors.

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Thereafter it was a case of 3-0 victories throughout as Bharath beat Anna and Rachael beat Troy in their respective semi-finals before Bharath sealed the title with a most emphatic win against Rachael.