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21st November 2022 Comment off

New Champions at the British Universities Championships 2022

Marlborough College, Wiltshire Saturday/Sunday 19-20 November 2022 Bob Dolby reports: With Andrew Boyd unable to defend his Singles title and Theo Parker no longer eligible we expected new champions to emerge from this year’s British Universities Championships. Injury prevented organiser Ben Jourdan (Edinburgh University) from competing in the Singles and illness robbed us of […]

News Tournaments

18th November 2022 Comment off

Draw for the National Singles 2022 published

The National Singles Finals; Saturday/Sunday 3-4 December 2022 The RFA is delighted to announce that the players who will contest the National Singles finals are: Kay, Tristao, Ellison and Beltrami by right; plus those 12 who have qualified at regional events — Arnold, Brooks, Grant, Jourdan, Keates, McIntyre, Murby, Parker, Russell, Shaw, Watkinson, Wiseman. Reserves […]

News Tournaments University Womens

10th November 2022 Comment off

Feast of Fives at the Durham Ladies Championships

Durham University Fives Courts Saturday/Sunday, 6-7 November 2022 STOP PRESS Players from Durham University, the City of Durham Fives Club and the Edinburgh Academy came together for the 4th staging of this ranking women’s tournament, played at the University Fives courts. With a small entry and a range of ages it was possible as usual […]

Mens News Womens

4th November 2022 Comment off

We have a New Community Fives Club — The Stoke Newington Swifts!

The Rugby Fives Association 4th November 2022 In exciting news the RFA is delighted to announce the opening of a new weekly community Fives club: The Stoke Newington Swifts, hosted by Stoke Newington School from 7pm to 9pm on Tuesdays. The first session will take place on Tuesday 8th November from 7pm to 9pm. Access will be […]

News

31st October 2022 Comment off

New updated rankings published

Rugby Fives Association, 31st October 2022 Following the West of England Open Championships we publish the newly updated rankings, compiled by Will Ellison, who has kindly taken on this task following the retirement of David Hebden. David had done the job for some 40 years. In recognition of these many years of service to the […]

News

29th October 2022 Comment off

Roger Freebairn 1936-2022

The Rugby Fives Association, October 2022 The Rugby Fives Association is sad to report the death at the age of 86 of Old Oundelian Roger Freebairn. A long-standing member of the RFA and a life-long Jester, Roger was National Schools Singles and Doubles champion in 1954 and, 30 years later, National Veterans Champion with Alastair […]

Mens News Tournaments Womens

24th October 2022 Comment off

Kay, Arnold & Beltrami weather the storm at the West of England Open

Sherborne School, Dorset Saturday/Sunday, 22-23 October 2022 STOP PRESS The wrong kind of weather = sweating courts, the organiser’s nightmare. But they got through it with the help of heaters and dehumidifiers and the customary sawdust. Ed Kay eventually beat Dan Tristao to retain his Singles title, while the long-standing pairing of Ollie Arnold & […]

News Tournaments

21st October 2022 Comment off

Entries for the National Singles Qualifiers are now open!

21st October 2022 Entries for the National Singles Qualifiers are now open! The regional tournaments will be held on the weekend of November 12th/13th in London, Tiverton, Derby and Edinburgh. Please contact organiser Charlie Brooks if you would like to play, as well as the regional organisers: South West: Blundell’s School, Tiverton – […]

News Tournaments Womens

16th October 2022 Comment off

Young players dominate the Lady’s Cup

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday, 15th October 2022 Bob Dolby reports: 13 pairs contested the Lady’s Cup, with competitors from Durham, London, Stamford and Cambridge in this event designed to encourage young or inexperienced female players. Among those players we had three mums, three Cambridge students, 7 schoolgirls ranging from 14 to 18, and two […]

News Tournaments

10th October 2022 Comment off

Derby Moor retain the Owers Trophy

Stoke Newington School, London Sunday, 9th October 2022 Organiser Alex Smith reports: It was a cracking day, of fine weather and fine Fives, and the first RFA National Tournament to be held at Stoke Newington School. Seasoned and regular players joined some veterans, young players and recent school leavers in this festival of Fives. With […]