The Rugby Fives Association
1st May 2024
The RFA is delighted to publish updated Women’s Rankings, with a change at the top in Singles, where new Women’s National Singles Champion Camille Beattie, from the City of Durham Fives Club, takes advantage of Louise Mathias’s temporary absence from the game to claim the Number One spot, making Camille the fourth woman to hold this position after Louise, Tessa Mills and Kathleen Briedenhann. Women’s National Doubles champion Helena Tunks moves up in the Doubles Rankings from #6 to #4 and Camille rises from #5 to #3, while Louise and Shinan Zhang maintain the top two slots. It is good to see former U18 Champion Phoebe Thornhill back in the higher reaches of both Singles and Doubles.
There are few significant changes in the top 20 of the Singles ranking, but two players enter: Zara Elliot, the new Women’s U25 Champion, and Jemima Mitchell, the 2024 U18 Champion. Also, as a result of their performances in the recent Girls’ National Championships more young players from Blundell’s, Alleyn’s and Eastbourne join the other U18s from the Edinburgh Academy and the City of Durham Club in the Top 40. In all 87 players are ranked in this category.
In the Doubles, only Clemmie Davidson enters the Top 20, but a number of players enter the Top 40: Abbie Evans from Oxford University, the U18 Doubles champions from Blundell’s School, Jemima Mitchell and Natalia Talbot, plus Phoenix Fleming from Marlborough College and U16 National Champion Eleonora Vallascas from the City of Durham Club. Unable to play in the U18 championships, Rosa Ogilvie and her fellow players from the Academy remain solidly placed in the Top 20. In all 76 players are ranked in Doubles.
The full rankings can be seen at https://therfa.uk/rankings/
See below for the Top 20 in Singles and Doubles
Women’s Rankings Top 20 May 2024
| SINGLES
Top 20 |
DOUBLES
Top 20 |
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| Current | December 2023 | Name | Points | Current | December 2023 | Name | Points | |
| 1 | 2 | C Beattie | 84.8 | 1 | 1 | L Mathias | 81.7 | |
| 2 | 1 | L Mathias | 84.2 | 2 | 2 | S Zhang | 74.0 | |
| 3 | 5 | S Zhang | 75.8 | 3 | 5 | C Beattie | 66.0 | |
| 4 | 3 | R Ogilvie | 73.7 | 4 | 6 | H Tunks | 63.0 | |
| 5 | 4 | M Nugent | 70.7 | 5 | 3 | M Nugent | 62.1 | |
| 6 | 7 | K Bell | 64.5 | 6 | 4 | S Leboff | 59.2 | |
| 7 | 6 | I Wright | 63.9 | 7 | 8 | L Barton | 54.5 | |
| 8 | 10 | H Tunks | 62.1 | 8 | 7 | R Ogilvie | 54.4 | |
| 9 | 8 | O Smart | 61.3 | 9 | 17 | C Clark | 52.1 | |
| 10 | 9 | I Lee | 58.2 | 10 | 15 | R McN Davis | 50.5 | |
| 11 | 18 | L Barton | 57.1 | 11= | 11 | I Wright | 49.1 | |
| 12 | 12 | L Ware | 56.2 | 9 | O Smart | 49.1 | ||
| 13 | 11 | H Brown | 54.7 | 13 | 10 | K Bell | 48.6 | |
| 14 | 17 | C Clark | 52.5 | 14 | 13 | L Ware | 46.3 | |
| 15 | 14 | H Nugent | 51.8 | 15 | 12 | K Sumner | 41.4 | |
| 16 | 13 | K Sumner | 51.3 | 16 | 13 | I Lee | 39.3 | |
| 17 | – | Z Elliot | 49.6 | 17 | 25 | C Davidson | 35.4 | |
| 18 | 16 | S Leboff | 49.0 | 18 | 18 | L Hogarth | 34.9 | |
| 19 | 15 | M Raynor | 48.0 | 19 | 16 | M Raynor | 33.1 | |
| 20 | – | J Mitchell | 47.0 | 20 | 20 | J McIntyre | 30.7 |