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South West Open Championships Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon, 6/7th July 2019 Organiser Wayne Enstone writes: This year’s Championship began with the very unfortunate and understandable withdrawal of Will Ellison, whose wife Nicky, had an accident the day of the draw, we all wish her a speedy recovery. Will was the defending Singles and Doubles winner and […]

Dennis Silk 1931-2019 The RFA is sad to report the death in June of one of the great post-war players of Fives: Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk, National Doubles Champion with his partner, the late John Pretlove, on four consecutive occasions from 1956 to 1959. Dennis and John, whose partnership and life-long friendship dated from their […]

Derby Moor Academy Sunday, 30th June 2019 Organiser Brian Kirk reports: Derby Moor Fives Club ran its annual Doubles tournament on Sunday, June 30th at the Derby Moor Academy Fives Courts in Littleover, Derby. Thankfully it was a much cooler day than the Saturday. As ever entrants were paired so as to create a balanced draw, making […]

The RFA is sad to report the death in May of one of the great characters from the heyday of Manchester Fives.  Wayne Enstone writes: Danny McGregor was a great all-round sportsman and person. In his younger days his first love was soccer, playing for a number of semi-professional soccer clubs around the Greater Manchester area, […]

South West Open Championships Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon, July 6/7th Organiser Wayne Enstone is now accepting entries for the South West Open Championships. Held at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devon, the tournament has both singles and doubles tournaments started on the Saturday, with only the finals played on the Sunday morning. As usual, there will be […]

The end of season 2018-19 rankings have thrown up a few interesting results. It has certainly been a year where the spoils have been shared around a little more widely than is usual, perhaps something that is good for the game. Ellison, Tristao, and Kay emerge as the dominant forces in fives, but many others […]

WINCHESTER FIVES MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP Bradfield College, Berkshire, May 12th As the dust settled on the end of a record-breaking Premiership football season, so Bradfield College witnessed a Mixed Doubles tournament that was packed with every bit as much drama and tension. The Winchester Fives Mixed Doubles tournament has grown in stature in recent years, […]

Loretto School, Musselburgh Saturday/Sunday, 4-5th May 2019 18 players contested the Singles at Musselburgh this year and another 6 joined the fray on Sunday for the Doubles. In the lamented absence of Neil Roberts, the Doubles were run by Richie Murby in the style of the President’s Cup. In Saturday’s Singles it was good to […]

The National Schoolgirls’ Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire Sunday, 28th April 2019 With a late Easter and public examinations looming in England and Scotland there was some worry about potential numbers for this ever more popular event, now in its 10th year, but in the end 9 schools attended, their coaches bringing 63 girls in all. […]

NATIONAL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP St Paul’s School, Barnes, London, 27 April 2019 Six teams took to the courts at St Paul’s to compete for the national club championship and in the end, it was the West of England Club that made history by winning the famous Wood Cup for the first time. It was a hard-fought […]