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15th September 2025 Comment off

Report from fourth Basque Rugby Fives Doubles Championship

4th Basque Rugby Fives Doubles Championship (2025) On July 30th, the Basque Association of Beach Tennis and Minority Sports organised the fourth Rugby Fives Doubles championship on the squash court of the San Ignazio municipal sports centre in Bilbao. There were six players and the three evenly balanced pairs played a round-robin format, with single […]

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3rd February 2025 Comment off

News from the British Universities Men’s and Women’s Championships

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday/Sunday, 1-2 February 2025 STOP PRESS With players from 9 universities — Bristol, Cambridge, Derby, Durham, Edinburgh, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Warwick and West of England — co-organisers Andrew Boyd and Ben Jourdan achieved a long overdue double, with Andrew winning the Open Singles title at the expense of defending champion Marcus […]

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20th January 2025 Comment off

Report from pre-Christmas Basque event

2024 Hilario Azkarate Memorial Tournament San Ignacio municipal sports centre, Bilbao, August 7 2024 The RFA is delighted to report on the latest Rugby Fives event held in Bilbao. The second playing of this tournament, named in honour of a famous Basque pelota player, was held on the squash courts of the San Ignacio sports […]

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16th December 2024 Comment off

A mixed pair wins the President’s Cup a third time

Marlborough College Sunday, 15th December 2024 STOP PRESS Tim Hebblethwaite won the President’s Cup for a second time, having won with Emrys Thursfield in 2021, and Shinan Zhang became the third woman to have held the trophy after Martha Nugent in 2018 and Helena Tunks in 2022. In a traditionally long and full day of […]

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6th November 2024 Comment off

History made at the Men’s U25 Championships

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday/Sunday, 2-3 November 2024 STOP PRESS The weekend began for organiser Joe Sumner with a major rewrite of the Singles draw after the regrettably late withdrawal of players. Seeding had been done according to the RFA Rankings but surprises were on the cards from the beginning, and so it turned out, […]

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15th April 2024 Comment off

Helena & Toby win the RFA Rugby Fives Mixed Doubles 2024

Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Sunday, 14th April 2024 For the informally dubbed RFA ‘Equaliser’ Mixed Doubles 9 pairs were selected by the organisers from the 18 competitors and groups were formed to play out a round robin. From these, two competitive semi-final matches emerged and in due course a final took place featuring Helena Tunks and […]

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21st October 2023 Comment off

Entries open for National Singles Championship

National Singles Championship Regional qualifying events – November 11/12; Final at St Paul’s School, Barnes, December 2/3 Entries for the National Singles Qualifiers are now open. The regional tournaments will be held on the weekend of November 11th/12th in London, Rugby and Edinburgh. Please contact organiser Charlie Brooks if you would like to play, as […]

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7th October 2023 Comment off

Latest RFA rankings published

Rugby Fives Association, 7th October 2023 The RFA today published its latest rankings, which take into account events up to last month’s Yorkshire Open Championship and will be used to set the seedings for this weekend’s London Open. However, with relatively few of the highest-ranked players making the trip to Derby Moor, there’s little movement […]

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21st September 2023 Comment off

New London League kicks off with win for Executioners

Rugby Fives Association, 21st September 2023 The new (well, technically revived) London League started last night at St Paul’s School, with a match between the Executioners and the UCS Old Boys clubs, which was won by the home club. Inspired – and organised – by Shinan Zhang, the league also includes the Stoke Newington Swifts […]

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22nd June 2023 Comment off

Official 2022/23 End-of-season Rankings published

Rugby Fives Association, 22nd June 2023 Dan Tristao finishes the 2022/3 season on top of the official RFA singles rankings, with Will Ellison leading the Doubles standings. Ed Kay, Will, Ben Beltrami and Julian Aquilina complete the top five spots in Singles, with Julian climbing from seventh last year. In the Doubles, Ben (up to […]