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News Tournaments

4th March 2024 Comment off

Titles for Tristao, Beltrami and Watkinson at the North of England Championships

Durham University Courts Saturday/Sunday, 2-3 March 2024 STOP PRESS Dan Tristao won a sixth North of England Open Singles title at the expense of Ben Beltrami. Ben won the Doubles once more, this time with a new partner, Tom Watkinson. The Singles Plate was won by a resurgent Dave Butler, the Doubles Plate by home […]

News Schools Tournaments

26th February 2024 Comment off

Report from the Scottish Schools U18 and U16 tournaments

Fettes College, Edinburgh February/March 2024 Hector McFarlane reports: U18 Singles — A full day of high-quality Fives took place on Fettes’ courts as 14 players battled it out in the 7th edition of this Singles competition, playing to lift The Boyd Trophy and The McKeown Plate. Two late withdrawals left the draw with two groups […]

News Tournaments

25th February 2024 Comment off

Gwydion Wiseman wins the Challenger at Rugby School

Rugby School Saturday, 24th February 2024 13 players contested this Challenger event, open to players outside the top 16, which was played on the courts at Rugby School. A previous winner of a Challenger on the Cambridge courts, Anthony Goodwin, was seeded highest but was knocked out in the semi-final by Gwydion Wiseman, twice the […]

News University

22nd February 2024 Comment off

The Varsity Match 2024

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday, 17th February 2024 Oxford Men’s captain, Vivek Thakrar, was able to introduce two schools champions, Shiloh Wu and Genesis Nsenga, plus an accomplished Basque pelota player, Ander Iraizoz, as his top three Singles players, with last year’s captain, Teddy Monro-Davies, at number 4. This made for very close games in […]

News Tournaments

20th February 2024 Comment off

Intense competition at a small North West Open

Manchester Y Club Saturday/Sunday, 17-18 February 2024 STOP PRESS In a relatively small entry for the Singles competition National Singles champion Ben Beltrami emerged triumphant, winning his first regional Singles title at the expense of Julian Aquilina in a well contested final. City of Durham’s Oscar McIntyre, who is playing his Fives in term time […]

News University

14th February 2024 Comment off

News from the Oxford and Cambridge Past versus Present

Oxford and Cambridge Universities Saturday, 10th February 2024 The 2024 Oxford University Past vs Present match took place at St Paul’s School on Saturday, 10th of February. This was the 38th edition and was the best attended event in the fixture’s history, with 50 Past and Present players involved throughout the day. This allowed […]

News Schools Tournaments

5th February 2024 Comment off

News from the South East Regional Schools’ Tournament

Tonbridge School Saturday, 3rd February 2024 Ian Jackson reports: There was a smaller entry than usual for this tournament held at Tonbridge. It was good to welcome Christ’s Hospital and Eastbourne, but the tournament missed entries from Whitgift, St. Dunstan’s and St. Olave’s. However, this certainly did not detract from the quality of the Fives and […]

News Tournaments

5th February 2024 Comment off

New Singles and Doubles champions at the National U25s

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday/Sunday, 3-4 February 2024 STOP PRESS A small but very high quality entry for the Singles, including the defending champion Lewis Keates, the Universities champion Marcus Cloke Browne and the Schools champion Shiloh Wu found more than their match in former Universities champion Isaac Weaver from Durham University, who won the […]

News Schools Tournaments

4th February 2024 Comment off

Results from the Northern Schools Championships at Durham

Durham, Saturday, 2nd February 2024 Organiser Julie McIntyre reports: Conditions were perfect for the Northern Schools tournament of 2024, in dry, mild and sunny Durham. Club members and parents had baked in large quantities and the Sedbergh school bus arrived bright and early. The Under 18 Singles games were very competitive as usual, with Sedbergh […]

News

31st January 2024 Comment off

Updated Open Rankings published — changes at the top

The Rugby Fives Association 31st January 2024 The RFA is delighted to publish updated National Open Rankings, with 252 players ranked for Singles and 238 for Doubles. In the Singles Top 20 there is upward movement following the British Universities Singles Championship for Marcus Cloke Browne and Isaac Weaver and, following the National Singles, for […]