Month: November 2017

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Entries open for 2017 President’s Cup

RFA CLUB PRESIDENT’S CUP St Paul’s School, Barnes, 10th December 2017 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. However, before we go any further, we should draw players’ attention to […]

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National Singles championship – draw for the last 16

National Singles Championship Finals: Manchester Y Club, December 2/3rd Organiser Charlie Brooks has today published the draw for the final rounds of this year’s National Singles Championship; and, as ever, it looks set to be an enthralling tournament. Top seed – and defending champion – is Dan Tristao, but he certainly won’t have an easy […]

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Both Colquhoun Trophy titles successfully defended

Colquhoun Trophy (South West Schools Regional Tournament) Sherborne School, Dorset, November 26th For the second year running, history was made in the Colquhoun Trophy: a year after we saw the first player follow a Colts title with the Senior title, and the first boy from Sherborne win a title, in 2017’s event, for the first […]

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New champions at the Ladies U23s

St. Paul’s School, Barnes Sunday, 19th November 2017 Bob Dolby reports:  This was just the second running of this championship, which this year attracted 17 contestants. Sadly, both last year’s Singles finalists, champion Tessa Mills and runner-up Shinan Zhang, were unable to play. We missed the quality they would have brought to the event but their absence gave others […]

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Cambridge maintain their grip on Universities Fives

Marlborough College, Wiltshire Friday-Sunday, 17-19 November 2017 As largely expected Ed Kay and Matt Shaw contrived a clean sweep of Singles and Doubles titles at this year’s British Universities Rugby Fives Championships. In the Singles final Ed Kay beat last year’s Cambridge captain Ben Beltrami, now at London City Law School, as he had done […]

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Eric Marsh (1940-2017)

The RFA is sad to report the death, at the age of 77, of Eric Marsh. One of a generation of leading Fives players to emerge from St. Dunstan’s College in the late 1950s, Eric was Amateur Singles Champion in 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963. He was three times runner-up: in 1959 to Jonathan Smith; in […]

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Winchester retain the Schools’ Winchester Doubles title

Schools’ Winchester Fives Doubles Championship Winchester College, Sunday 5th November 2017 David Barnes reports: Ten pairs, the same number as last year, contested the sixteenth edition of the Schools’ Winchester Doubles. Marlborough and Radley each brought two pairs, and the rest of the entry came from St. Paul’s and Winchester. A last-minute gap in the […]

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Draws for 2017 Student Championships

British Universities & Student Fives Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire, Friday-Sunday November 17-19th The organisers have published the draws for the 2017 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 has had […]