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National Singles Championship Qualifying – various dates and locations. Finals: Manchester Y Club, December 2/3rd Charlie Brooks is now accepting entries for this year’s Jesters Club Cup, to crown the National Singles Champion 2017. As ever, there will be qualification events around the country – in Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridge, Bristol and London – to decide […]

October 2017 The RFA is sad to announce the death of Denise Hall-Wilton, following a short illness caused by a brain tumour. A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Denise Hall-Wilton was held in Bradfield College Chapel on Saturday, 10th March 2018. Many fives players and friends came to celebrate her life, recognising her immense contribution to […]

Winchester College Sunday, 22nd October 2017 Victory for the RFA team in this annual fixture means the score now stands at 4-3 to the RFA. For the results in previous years  see end of this post. Harry Akerman reports : Our annual match against an RFA team that seems to be getting stronger every year […]

Yorkshire Open Championships Giggleswick and Manchester, October 14/15th Organiser John Hawke writes: After the usual intimidation by the organiser, an excellent entry was forthcoming for the tournament. Unfortunately, he had obviously not put as much effort into control of the weather, so an extremely wet Friday coupled with a rapid increase in temperature left the […]

Cambridge University Sports Centre Saturday, 21st October 2017 Bob Dolby reports :  12 pairs vied this year for the Lady’s Cup, presented 80 years ago in memory of National Champion Philip Malt but played for these days as part of the RFA programme of Ladies’ Fives events. It was the fourth time that players had […]

West of England Championships Clifton College, Bristol; October 28/29th PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF ORGANISER Organiser Ollie Arnold is now accepting entries for the West of England Open Championships. There is a dedicated website, where players can enter the competition and where the draws will be published in due course. The competitions will be played over the weekend of […]

Cambridge, 14th October 2017 Ever inventive — last year it was Mixed Cuppers — the Cambridge University Rugby Fives Club this year organised a Joint Mixed Cuppers with their male and female friends in the CU Eton Fives Club, playing the event across both codes. Captain Matt Shaw reports :  Saturday October 14th marked the […]

British Universities & Student Fives Championships Marlborough College, Wiltshire, Friday-Sunday November 17-19th The organisers have now published the official entry form for the 2017 Student Championships, and it can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. 2017 Student Championships entry form [PDF, 208KB] —————————————– This follows on from the publication of preliminary information for […]

Holders: Freya Harrison & Dick Warner Entries are invited for the fifthLady’s (Doubles) Cup, to be held on the Cambridge University courts on Saturday October 210th Each pair should contain at least one school girl or recent leaver or one female beginner. The partner may be of any standard and either sex. If you do not […]

The Owers Trophy St. Paul’s School, Barnes, Saturday, September 30th 2017 After a week in which the number of expected entrants once rose as high as 10, in the end, seven teams took the courts at St Paul’s for the annual Owers Trophy event for teams of Old Boys. And, the first shock was that […]