The Rugby Fives Association
December 2021
The RFA is delighted to publish up-dated Women’s Rankings in Singles and Doubles after the successful staging of three events since the beginning of the 2021-2022 season: the National Schoolgirls’ Championships in August, the Northern Ladies’ Tournament in October and the National Ladies’ U23 Championships in December.
Those players who took part in these events have made significant progress up the Singles rankings, among them Camille Beattie, Kirsten Bell, Lucy Arie and Katie Innes, with Imogen Wright, Rosa Ogilvie and Savanna Leboff entering the top 30 for the first time.
In Doubles Martha Nugent rises to enter the top 3, with Kirsten Bell, Camille Beattie, Holly Nugent and Katie Innes progressing higher in the top 30 and Leah Hogarth, Imogen Wright, Savanna Leboff, Sophia Breese and Rosa Ogilvie entering that group for the first time.
Louise Mathias maintains her dominant position as Number 1 in Singles and Doubles and, with her Doubles partner, will represent the standard to which all will aspire in the upcoming Ladies’ National Championships in Manchester on the weekend of January 22-23.
The full Rankings can be consulted by clicking on https://therfa.uk/rankings/.
T0P 10 SINGLES
| CURRENT | PREVIOUS | NAME | POINTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | L. Mathias | 86.2 |
| 2 | 2 | K. Briedenhann | 77.9 |
| 3 | 3 | M. Raynor | 75.9 |
| 4 | 5 | M. Nugent | 75.6 |
| 5 | 4 | T. Mills | 72.1 |
| 6 | 7 | K. Sumner | 70.0 |
| 7 | 8 | I. Lee | 69.9 |
| 8 | 6 | S. Zhang | 68.1 |
| 9 | 15 | C. Beattie | 61.5 |
| 10 | 26 | H. Nugent | 59.1 |
TOP 10 DOUBLES
| CURRENT | PREVIOUS | NAME | POINTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | L. Mathias | 81.9 |
| 2 | 2 | S. Zhang | 67.5 |
| 3 | 5 | M. Nugent | 66.7 |
| 4 | 3 | T. Mills | 64.6 |
| 5 | 4 | K. Briedenhann | 63.8 |
| 6 | 6 | A. Steel | 62.6 |
| 7 | 7 | M. Raynor | 62.5 |
| 8 | 17 | K. Bell | 58.9 |
| 9 | 9 | K. Sumner | 53.5 |
| 10 | 8 | M. Kent | 51.4 |