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News Tournaments

30th June 2025 Comment off

Val Fikhter & Richard Christie win the 21st Derby Invitational Doubles

Derby Moor Academy, Littleover Sunday, 29th June 2025 Organiser Brian Kirk believes in getting plenty of Fives for your money (not that there’s an entry fee for the Derby Invitational Doubles!), and so it was for the 9 pairs who contested the 21st edition of this unique Club tournament. In the initial Group stage it […]

News

27th June 2025 Comment off

End-of-Season National Rankings

The Rugby Fives Association 27th June 2025 Charlie Brooks writes: It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…. How have our efforts from this season translated into ranking points? Have I climbed up or tumbled down? Who are the big movers? There are now 214 players ranked in the Open Singles and 224 in the Open […]

News Tournaments

16th June 2025 Comment off

National Open Mixed Doubles title for Camille Beattie and Ed Kay

Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Saturday, 14th June 2025 STOP PRESS 7 pairs contested a single round robin, at the end of which a final was held between the two most successful pairs. This involved Camille Beattie & Ed Kay versus Shinan Zhang & Penn Chai, already beaten in the group stage by Camille & Ed. […]

News Tournaments Womens

31st May 2025 Comment off

News from the Women’s Winchester Fives Championships

Bradfield College Saturday, 31st May 2025 Stop Press Shinan Zhang wins her third Women’s Winchester Fives Singles title, beating Helena Tunks in the final. In the morning the two of them had teamed up to win their third Doubles title together, this time against Kirsten Bell & Lizzie Ware. Report to follow Singles […]

News Tournaments

22nd May 2025 Comment off

Penn reports on the 2025 Multicourt Masters

The 2025 Multicourt Masters: Chaos. Cramping. Champions. Six sports. Ten competitors. One very questionable scoring system. The inaugural Multicourt Masters has wrapped, and what began as a simple idea to pit friends against each other in glorious multi-sport battle quickly devolved into a saga of delayed arrivals, injured hamstrings, Eton Fives trauma, and car breakdowns. […]

News Tournaments

19th May 2025 Comment off

A Good Day for Pringle and Spillane at the Vintage Championships

Cambridge University Sports Centre Sunday, 18th May 2025 A historic day for Andy Pringle and Morgan Spillane, who faced each other in the final of the Over 55s championship, with Andy there claiming his first Singles title. They then went on together to win their third successive Doubles title. Andy did it the hard way, […]

News Tournaments

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 […]

News Schools Tournaments

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) […]

International News

27th April 2025 Comment off

Latest update from Basque Fives events

Basque Rugby Fives tournaments in 2025 The Basque Association of Beach Tennis and Minority Sports has again organised singles and doubles Fives tournaments on the squash court of sports centre of San Ignacio, Bilbao, with all local players. On the 11th of March, it was the second Hilario Azkarate Memorial doubles tournament (honouring a famous […]

News Tournaments

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 […]