Year: 2017

South West Open Championships Blundell’s School, Tiverton, July 8/9th A last-minute reminder that organiser Wayne Enstone is accepting entries for the South West Open Championships. Held at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devon, the tournament has both singles and doubles tournaments started on the Saturday, with only the finals played on the Sunday morning. As usual, […]

Executioners’ end-of-season doubles tournament Saturday 17th June, St Paul’s School. Organiser Guy Matthews writes: On the hottest day of the year, eleven intrepid souls ventured into the oven of the St Paul’s School courts for arguably the biggest event in the Fives world – the Executioners’ end-of-season doubles tournament. Unbelievable scenes as eleven players turned up within half […]

The Rugby Fives Association June 20th 2017 The RFA is delighted to publish the end-of-season rankings for Women’s Fives. They show the continued see-sawing at the top between our closely matched champions Tessa Mills and Kathleen Briedenhann, and also the close rivalry between Maddy Raynor and Alexandra Steel just below them. After Kathleen had garnered […]

Dan Tristao and Will Ellison continue their battle at the top in the newly published End of Season Rankings. Dan regains top spot in the Singles while Will retains his dominance in the Doubles. With Will winning 6 out of 9 of the open Singles events on offer, some might have expected to see Will […]

Girls’ South East Regional Fives Tournament Christ’s Hospital, Horsham Thursday, 23 March 2017 Ed Hatton reports: Three schools gathered at Christ’s Hospital on Thursday 23rd March for the first ever South East Girls’ Regional Fives Championships. With the success of the National Girls Championships the schools and their players felt that the time was right to […]

Winchester Fives Mixed Doubles Championship Bradfield College, Berkshire, May 7th 2017 Six pairs took to the courts at Bradfield for the 2017 Winchester Fives Mixed Doubles Championship. And, if there was any slight disappointment at a relative lack of numbers, that was more than made up for by the quality of play on show during […]

SCOTTISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Loretto School, Musselburgh, April 29/30th STOP PRESS Will Ellison enjoyed another successful trip to Scotland this weekend, picking up this third Scottish Open Singles title. However, there was plenty of Scottish interest at the sharp end of the event, with the runner-up being local player Richie Murby, while the runner-up in the […]

Marlborough College Sunday, 23rd April 2017 65 girls contested this year’s event, just three down on last year’s record entry. We missed Sedbergh who were unable to send a contingent, but we welcomed two schools from Edinburgh (nearly 400 miles as the crow flies?). With masters and mistresses-in-charge, drivers, parents, friends and local enthusiasts it […]

St. Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday-Sunday, 22-23 April 2017 With 12 out of the 33 players contesting the final rounds of this year’s Club Knock-out being Old Paulines it felt from the outset as if the OPs would have the last say. And indeed it was so, as they progressed to an increasingly comfortable win in the […]