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9th January 2024 Comment off

Report from 2023 Basque Doubles Championship

Second Bizkaia Challenge of Rugby Fives (Doubles) 2023 San Ignazio municipal sports center, Bilbao, December 7 2023 The RFA is delighted to report the latest in a series of Rugby Fives competitions held in the Basque Country. Early last December, the Basque Association of Beach Tennis and Minority Sports organised the Second Bizkaia Challenge of […]

News Schools Tournaments

8th January 2024 Comment off

St Paul’s and Winchester dominate the West of England Schools Championships

Sherborne School Saturday/Sunday, 6-7 January 2024 STOP PRESS Players from St Paul’s and Winchester dominated the event, taking all four titles between them and featuring almost exclusively in the finals. The two players from St Paul’s who won the U18 Singles and Doubles are in fact U16s, which may be a first, while Winchester’s successful […]

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28th December 2023 Comment off

Updated Women’s Rankings after the Durham Ladies

The Rugby Fives Association 28th December 2023 With just the one Women’s tournament since the end-of-season Rankings were published in July, those who entered the Durham Ladies Championship in November have benefited substantially. Runner-up Rosa O. from the Edinburgh Academy rises to number 3 in the Singles rankings, while Durham players past and present Kirsten Bell […]

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18th December 2023 Comment off

Keates & Seddon take the President’s Cup

Marlborough College Sunday, 17th December 2023 STOP PRESS A first President’s Cup for Lewis Keates and Roland Seddon at the end of a customarily long day. Richard Christie & Jim Hughes take the Love Mug, George Fox-Edwards & Sarthak Garella the T-Pot, and Harvey Bishop & Yarin Negyal the Mate’s Plate. A full report to […]

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4th December 2023 Comment off

A second Challenger win for Christian Blackaby

St Paul’s School, Barnes Sunday, 3rd December 2023 STOP PRESS On the day of the National Singles final Penn Chai organised a Challenger event, contested by 16 players outside the Top 16. Victor at the end of the day was Christian Blackaby, for the second time. In the final Christian defeated Basque pelota player Ander […]

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3rd December 2023 Comment off

Ben Beltrami wins his first National Singles Championship

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday/Sunday, 2-3 December 2023 STOP PRESS As expected the Big Four made it to the final stages of the competition, with the Big Question: Which of the Four would it be that took the title this year? And the answer was emphatic, with Ben Beltrami defeating, first, defending champion Dan Tristao […]

News Tournaments

13th November 2023 Comment off

3 National Singles qualifying events completed; Draw published

The Rugby Fives Association 13th November 2023 Over the weekend of November 11-12 three qualifying events were held for the National Singles Championship to be held at St Paul’s School the first weekend of December. From these tournaments 12 players will qualify to join the four top-ranked players contesting the Jesters Cup: defending champion Dan […]

News Tournaments Womens

6th November 2023 Comment off

Titles retained at the Durham Ladies Championships

Durham University Fives Courts Saturday/Sunday, 4-5 November 2023 STOP PRESS At these fifth Durham Ladies Championships Camille Beattie won the Championship Singles for a third consecutive time, and then Camille and Imogen Wright retained the Doubles title they first won last year. There were 22 competitors in all, from the City of Durham Club past […]

News Tournaments University

6th November 2023 Comment off

News from an action-packed British Universities Championships

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday/Sunday, 4-5 November 2023 STOP PRESS A new Singles champion emerged from an entry of 32 players, with Cambridge’s Marcus Cloke Browne beating Shiloh Wu from Oxford in the final. There were two Plates, one for men, won by Aaditya Deshmukh, who beat fellow Oxford player Alikhan Murat in the final, […]

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22nd October 2023 Comment off

The double for Dan and Charlie at the West of England Championships

Sherborne School, Dorset Saturday/Sunday, 21-22 October 2023 STOP PRESS Dan Tristao did the double, winning his 6th West of England Open Singles title at the expense of Ben Beltrami, then pairing up with Ben to defeat Lewis Keates & Sam Russell in the Doubles final; it was Dan’s 5th such Doubles title and their first […]