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5th May 2025 Comment off

Firsts for Grant and Keates at the Scottish Open

Fettes College, Edinburgh Saturday/Sunday, 3-4 May 2025 Stop Press It was a weekend of firsts at the Scottish Open Championships. Dan Grant achieved a well-deserved and long-awaited first regional Singles title, beating Universities Singles champion Andrew Boyd in the final, and Penn Chai & Lewis Keates teamed up to win the Doubles title, against Andrew […]
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28th April 2025 Comment off

Alleyn’s achieve clean sweep in the Schools Mixed Doubles at Oundle

Oundle School Sunday, 27th April 2025 Stop Press With just three schools represented in this second staging of the final schools championship of the season, it was Alleyn’s who dominated in both categories, providing both finalists in each competition and also winning the two Plates. Seniors (U18) Knockout Semi-finals: E Erdmeier & Y Negyal (Alleyn’s) […]
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27th April 2025 Comment off

Three in a row for the Old Paulines at the Wood Cup

St Paul’s School, Barnes and Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Saturday, 26th April 2025 Tom Maconie reports: The Old Paulines retained The Wood Cup after a long day of fives played across two venues in London: Alleyn’s and St Paul’s School. A variety of factors, a transatlantic flight and a sauna booking among them, meant that the games […]
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18th April 2025 Comment off

Up-dated Open Rankings published

The Rugby Fives Association April 2025 The latest official Open Rankings have just been released after the North of England Championships and the National Doubles Championship, and there’s plenty of movement throughout. Kay, Tristao and Beltrami keep a vice-like grip at the top of both Singles and Doubles, but the rest of the top ten shuffle […]
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16th April 2025 Comment off

New champions in the Masters and Grand Masters

Marlborough College, Dorset Saturday, 12th April 2025 STOP PRESS It was all change in the Masters (65+) and Grand Masters (75+) as we saw competitions without the late Tony Hamilton, his long-standing partner Spencer Beal and multiple title-holder Bernard Atkinson. This opened the door to Stuart Kirby & organiser Brian Kirk to win the Masters […]
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4th April 2025 Comment off

Young players progress in the updated Women’s Rankings

Rugby Fives Association 4th April 2025 New Women’s Rankings in Singles and Doubles, kindly compiled by Chris Burrows, reveal significant gains by young players after the recent National Schools Girls Championships. Jemima Mitchell from Blundell’s School, twice a winner of the Singles and Doubles competitions, enters the Top 10 in Singles at #9 and rises […]
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1st April 2025 Comment off

Fiercely contested National Schools Championships

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday/Monday, 29-31 March 2025 Organiser Theo Parker reports: Approximately 130 players from 18 schools and clubs took part in the National Schools Championships held, as usual, at St Paul’s School across their reliable 6 courts. Whilst the weather outside was sunny, the indoor viewing gallery remained packed throughout, with players, teachers, […]
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25th March 2025 Comment off

Report on the National Schools Girls Championships

Marlborough College Sunday, 23rd March 2025 STOP PRESS  The senior pair from Blundell’s, Mitchell and Talbot, did the double once more, winning the Singles and Doubles as they had done last year at Oundle. The substantial squad from Alleyn’s dominated the three younger categories, winning Singles and Doubles titles at U16, U14 and U13. Congratulations […]
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