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The Varsity Match 2024

St Paul’s School, Barnes Saturday, 17th February 2024 Oxford Men’s captain, Vivek Thakrar, was able to introduce two schools champions, Shiloh Wu and Genesis Nsenga, plus an accomplished Basque pelota player, Ander Iraizoz, as his top three Singles players, with last year’s captain, Teddy Monro-Davies, at number 4. This made for very close games in […]

News  Tournaments

Intense competition at a small North West Open

Manchester Y Club Saturday/Sunday, 17-18 February 2024 STOP PRESS In a relatively small entry for the Singles competition National Singles champion Ben Beltrami emerged triumphant, winning his first regional Singles title at the expense of Julian Aquilina in a well contested final. City of Durham’s Oscar McIntyre, who is playing his Fives in term time […]

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New Singles and Doubles champions at the National U25s

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday/Sunday, 3-4 February 2024 STOP PRESS  A small but very high quality entry for the Singles, including the defending champion Lewis Keates, the Universities champion Marcus Cloke Browne and the Schools champion Shiloh Wu found more than their match in former Universities champion Isaac Weaver from Durham University, who won the […]

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Updated Open Rankings published — changes at the top

The Rugby Fives Association 31st January 2024 The RFA is delighted to publish updated National Open Rankings, with 252 players ranked for Singles and 238 for Doubles. In the Singles Top 20 there is upward movement following the British Universities Singles Championship for Marcus Cloke Browne and Isaac Weaver and, following the National Singles, for […]

London League News

EAC on top of latest standings in London League

London League, 9th January 2024 The Edward Alleyn Club is in pole position as the four teams in the revived London League enter 2024. The South London club sits ahead of its rivals, the Executioners, the UCS Old Boys and the Stoke Newington Swifts. Inspired – and organised – by Shinan Zhang, the league sees […]

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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 […]