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20th October 2026 Comment off

Report from the Women’s U25 Championships

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday/Sunday, 17-18 October 2026 Bob Dolby reports: The entry for this event was bedevilled by a combination of Freedom of Movement and Winter Ailments. i.e. several would-be participants sojourning in foreign climes and one significant absentee languishing abed in distant Dulwich. Nevertheless Cambridge University Women’s Rugby Fives Club Past and Present […]
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19th October 2026 Comment off

History made at the Men’s U25 Championships

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday/Sunday, 17-18 October 2026 Bob Dolby reports: A large entry of 25 for the Singles, with a few last minute tweaks, provided for a 1st and a 2nd round with particularly encouraging performances from some of the young entries. The stand-out match in the quarter-finals was Stuart Scott’s 3-game victory over […]
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29th September 2026 Comment off

Updated National Rankings September 2026

The Rugby Fives Association September 2026 National Rankings: First update of the Season We’re already three Open tournaments into the new season and the RFA is delighted to publish the first rankings for 2026-27, kindly compiled by Will Ellison. Changes are, as ever, precipitated not only by success in these tournaments, but also whether players […]
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28th September 2026 Comment off

Updated Women’s Rankings September 2026

The Rugby Fives Association September 2026 The RFA is delighted to announce the publication of new Women’s Rankings, compiled by Abbie Evans and updated since the Women’s Scottish Open Championships held recently in Edinburgh. 83 players are ranked in Singles and 76 in Doubles. There is just the one new name in the top 50 […]
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28th September 2026 Comment off

Report from the Rossall Fives Festival 2026

Rossall School, Fleetwood Saturday/Sunday, 26-27 September 2026 Organiser Howard Wiseman reports: The Rossall Fives Festival weekend was blessed with an impressive turnout, beautiful weather and eight wonderful Fives courts; it could not have been more fun! Three sports were “invented” back in Victorian times by this great British Public School: Rossall Hockey, Lawn Tennis, and […]
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15th September 2026 Comment off

Report from the Women’s Scottish Open 2026

Fettes College, Edinburgh Saturday/Sunday, 12-13 September 2026 Stop Press  This is the second staging of the first of 7 ranking tournaments for Women’s Fives. Camille Beattie underlined her status as National Singles champion by beating defending Scottish Champion Louise Mathias in a three-game Singles final. Helena Tunks won the Singles Plate, beating her doubles partner […]
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6th September 2026 Comment off

Kay and Beltrami triumphant in the Yorkshire Open 2026

Derby Moor Academy, Littleover Saturday, 5th September 2026 Bob Dolby reports: There was an element of the circus, in the best possible sense, about this season’s Yorkshire Open — with swings & roundabouts and acrobatics of the most entertaining sort. No clowns, but shades of Houdini and prodigious acts of prestidigitation in the rearmost depths […]
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Basque Fives 2026 News
10th August 2026 Comment off

Egoitz Campo retains his Basque singles title

Sixth Basque Rugby Fives Singles Championship 2026July 21 2026, Bilbao, Spain The Sixth Basque Singles Championship (2026) was played on 21st July on the squash court of the San Ignazio municipal sports center (Bilbao). There were six players and who played short matches of 10 minutes each, with the score at th end of the time […]
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