2016/17

New Fives Coach/Manager at Westway28/02/17: The EFA and Westway Sports and Fitness are delighted to welcome Daniel Pritchard as the new Fives Coach/Manager at Westway.

The competition, founded in 1965 by Alan Barber, then President of the EFA, and won in its inaugural year by the Old Edwardians, was first won by the Olavians in 1971; in the 21st century they have w…

Ladies Championships 2017: Lumbard & Scoones To Challenge The Champions27/02/17: The ladies championships took place at Eton on Saturday, a week after the men's equivalent, and suffered nothing in co…

Kinnaird Cup 201720/02/17: The initial rounds of 2017 Kinnaird Cup at Eton over the weekend threw up some absolutely fantastic Fives and whittled a relatively small but extremely strong field down to…

Mike Hughes Cup 2017Mark Williams reports:06/02/17: Five schools comprising seven teams entered the inaugural Under 15 team competition for the Mike Hughes Cup, which was an encouraging start; the co…

Under 21s 2017: Young Guns (Go For It)13/02/17: The 2017 Under 21 tournament produced a thrilling day of Fives in arctic conditions at Eton yesterday. Highgate's Phoebe Bracken and Amira Reimer domin…

2017 Northern Tournament: Toop and Wiseman Roll Back The Years06/02/17: An astonishing 73 pairs - a new record - took part in a vintage Northern Tournament over the weekend. The absence due to work c…

Universities Mixed 2017: Liverpool At Last30/01/17: After three successive semi-final defeats - some by agonisingly close margins - the Liverpool University pair of Aroop Bhattacharya and Alice Brett…

Cambridge Coaching Workshop28/01/17: Thirteen fives players took part in a one-day Fives workshop on Saturday at the three wonderful Cambridge University Eton Fives courts. James Powley, the Head of …

A.J.N. (Nick) Dawson (1933-2016)Gerald Barber writes:Nick, with his twin brother Tim, was born on the 1st September 1933.

Girls’ Festival at Charterhouse24/01/17: Paul Bowden reports:This year the annual Girls’ Festival which had been held at Berkhamsted for three years moved to Charterhouse by kind invitation of Master…

REFCA U15s Individual and U14s Three Pair CupHoward Wiseman & Dominique Redmond report:23/01/17: On Sunday the 22nd of January, two REFCA tournaments filled the 14 available courts at Harrow school.