Month: February 2016

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Two titles for Ellison in Durham

North of England Championships Durham; Saturday/Sunday February 27/28th 2016 A huge draw of 29 players in the singles descended upon Durham Racecourse for the 2016 North of England Open – most notably including a record entry of two women. Also present, 11 students from the Durham club and three schoolboys from Scotland. With the first […]

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Oundle and Rugby dominate at the Midlands Schools tournament

Bedford Modern School and Bedford School, Sunday 28th February 2016 The 4th Midlands Schools championships were conducted as usual on the courts of the two Bedford schools, with the final stages of both sets of Singles played at Bedford School. The 20-strong U18 tournament began with the Doubles. Three schools reached the semi-finals: Rugby I […]

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A Light Blue treble at the Varsity Match

The 86th Varsity Match St. Paul’s School, Saturday 20th February 2016 STOP PRESS Given the experience and national rankings of the top Cambridge players it was no surprise that the Light Blues won their sixth Varsity Match in a row against a relatively young Oxford VIII, but the other two matches in this year’s largest […]

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Ed Kay does the U25s double at Oundle

National U25 Fives Championships Oundle School, 6-7 February 2016 STOP PRESS It was all ‘doubles’ at the U25s this year as Ed Kay successfully defended the Singles he first won last year and Ed Kay & Matt Shaw made it two in a row in the Doubles. Tom Watkinson won the Doubles Plate for the second […]

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Entry form for National Winchester Fives Championship

Winchester Fives Championship Malvern College, Worcestershire, Sunday March 13th Organiser Harry Akerman has now published the entry forms and details for the 2016 Winchester Fives Championship (current holders Dan Grant and Dan Tristao pictured above, with the famous Barnes Bridge trophy). At the moment, the tournament is scheduled to take place at Malvern College, but because of […]

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Reeve Wood – former Secretary of the RFA Club

Reeve Wood RFA members, particularly those who knew him from his RFA Club days, will be shocked and saddened to hear of the death on January 25th of Reeve Wood, son of Tom and Joan and Honorary Secretary of the RFA Club from 1991-95. Reeve was only 60 but had been undergoing treatment for a […]

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The Jesters’ Anniversary Tour to Edinburgh 2016

The Jesters Tour to Scotland, January 2016 Fives-packed and fun-packed: that was this year’s Jesters Tour to Scotland. Below are some photographs relating to this tour, an annual fixture which began in 1992, making this the 25th of its kind. It was the biggest yet; over the long weekend of 8-10 January some 38 players contested 11 […]