RFA Schoolsʼ Winchester Fives Doubles 2014 Winchester College, 9th November 2014 1st Round: Winchester III bt Bedford Modern 15-9, 15-11; St. Paulʼs II bt Derby Moor III 15-6, 15-3; Derby Moor II bt Winchester II 15-6, 11-15, 15-9; St. Paulʼs III bt Marlborough 15-10, 15-6. Quarter-finals: Derby Moor I bt Winchester III 15-8, 15-2; Winchester […]
BUSF Championships Sherborne School, 21st/23rd November The organisers of the British Universities & Student Fives (BUSF) Championships – as previously announced, the first such event to be held for some time without the support of BUCS – which will be held at Sherborne School have great pleasure in publishing full details of the tournament, including […]
Winchester College, 2nd November 2014 Harry Akerman reports: We had a cracking match at Winchester today between the RFA and the WFA. Last year we lost by 20 points and although this time we lost by 27 points there were many many good games. Only in four of the 20 matches did the losing pair not […]
National Under 14 Championships St. Paul’s, Saturday and Sunday November 1st and 2nd 2014 At the National U14 Championships postponed from April boys from Winchester College won both the Singles and the Doubles titles. In the Plate competitions there were successes for Alleyn’s, Whitgift and St. Olave’s. 43 players contested the U14 Singles. From the […]
The latest rankings for Singles and Doubles, compiled by Dave Hebden after the West of England Open Championships, show a significant change at the top of the Singles rankings: with his victory at that tournament Will Ellison has overtaken Dan Tristao and now heads both the Singles and the Doubles rankings. Dan Grant has also […]
WEST OF ENGLAND OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Clifton College, Bristol, 25/26th October 2014 On a long and gruelling weekend 18 players contested the West of England Singles and 17 pairs the Doubles at Clifton College. The weather was kind, the courts were clear and traffic conditions on the relevant motorways relatively benign. The early rounds of the Singles […]
The inaugural Lady’s Cup Cambridge, October 18th 2014 Ten pairs contested the inaugural Lady’s Cup, played on the courts at ‘New Portugal Place’, i.e. the Sports Centre at Cambridge University. There were four ladies who had never played before, and one player of each sex who had set foot on court just the once, a few […]
YORKSHIRE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Giggleswick, October 11/12th STOP PRESS Hamish Buchanan and Will Ellison retained their doubles title in a repeat of last year’s final, resisting a comeback from Dan Tristao and Gareth Price at the end of the third game, winning 16-14 15-16 15-13 in an epic. Dan Tristao won the singles, reversing a 15-9 […]
WEST OF ENGLAND OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Clifton College, Bristol, 25/26th October 2014 Simon Werkshagen is now accepting entries for the West of England Open Championships. However, rather than producing an entry form for players to download and send in, he has followed Tom Maconie’s example and set up a dedicated website, where players can enter the […]
