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British Universities Rugby Fives Championships St. Paul’s School, Barnes; November 18-20   STOP PRESS: It was a case of Cambridge defending their titles successfully at this year’s British Universities and Student Championships, the 57th of its kind. Ed Kay looked in a different class in Singles from all his rivals, including his opponent in the […]

Ladies U23 Championships St. Paul’s School, Barnes; Sunday 20th November 2016 STOP PRESS: At the inaugural Ladies U23 championships Tessa Mills took the Doubles title, playing with Rugby schoolgirl Freya Harrison, to add to her National Rugby Fives Doubles title and the Winchester Fives Doubles title, held both with Kathleen Briedenhann. Later in the day […]

RFA CLUB PRESIDENT’S CUP Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, 11th December 2016 Following the success of the email-based entry system which has been used over the last few years, organiser Gareth Price will be continuing with it for this year’s RFA Club President’s Cup. The entry form is being distributed by email and here on the […]

Updated rankings reflecting results from the Yorkshire and West of England Championships held in October have now been posted. These rankings will be the basis for the seedings in the forthcoming National Singles Qualifiers. In the singles Will Ellison retains a narrow lead over Dan Tristao after wins in both the last two events. The […]

RFA Schools’ Winchester Fives Doubles 2016 Winchester College Sunday, 6th November Organiser David Barnes reports: A small but high-quality entry of ten pairs contested the fifteenth edition of the Schools’ Winchester Doubles on a cold November day. It was very good to see two pairs each from Marlborough and Bedford Modern, the rest of the […]

British Universities & Student Fives Championships St Paul’s School, Barnes, Friday-Sunday November 18-20th The organisers have today published the draws for the 2016 Student Championships – which can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate links below – and it looks like being a cracking tournament. Much will be expected of the Cambridge squad, which […]

West of England Championships 2016 Clifton College, Bristol,  29-30th October STOP PRESS It was a weekend of dominance by the game’s top four ranked players at Clifton. After Will Ellison, Dan Tristao, Dan Grant and Ed Kay all reached the semi-finals of the singles championship, the same four players also went on play out the […]

National Singles Championship 2016 Qualifying events in various locations, 12 & 16th November. Finals (last 16) at St Paul’s School, Barnes, December 3rd/4th Entry is now open to this year’s National Singles Championship. And, as you can see from the attached document, qualifying events will be taking place around the country as usual; the venues […]

Winchester College Sunday, 23rd October 2016 The WFA’s Harry Akerman reports We had our annual match against the Rugby Fives Association yesterday, and despite the fact that Dan Tristao only emailed me at 4am on the morning of the match confirming their team (which was still two and a half hours before he went to […]

Yorkshire Open Championships Giggleswick School, North Yorkshire, Saturday/Sunday October 15/16th John Hawke reports As is traditional for this tournament, the doubles were played on Saturday and the singles on Sunday. This arrangement tends to result in highly competitive later rounds in the doubles, at the expense of some performances in the singles. Beer and a […]