Giraffe Club Cup: Live! TAGS: Giraffe Club Cup The Stream team have been busy for the past few weeks and, fingers crossed, there will be live coverage from this Saturday’s (Feb 5th) Giraffe Club Cup from 9am. Stream …Continue reading →

LRTA National School Girls Tournament 15th/16th January 2022 TAGS: LRTA | Wellington Many thanks to Vix and the LRTA for the report and photos… This is an exciting time for junior girl’s tennis as seen at the National Schools Tournament held at …Continue reading →

CURTC Student Cup TAGS: Giraffe | Student Cup On this particularly cold, wet and windy late November day, spirits were high as eight of us participated in the 2021 Real Tennis Student Cup at Cambridge. The tournament began …Continue reading →

CURTC at British Ladies Singles and Doubles Handicaps TAGS: Linda | LRTA | Prested | Vix The Cambridge ladies at the British Ladies Handicaps didn’t quite sweep the board, but had a good go at it. Mind you, we covered all bases – age range from …Continue reading →

The Inaugural CURTC Doubles Championship… TAGS: Doubles Championship | Nigel | Smuts .. has a winner*! Congratulations to Smuts Beyers and Nigel Belbin who will be representing CURTC at the Callender Cup at Wellington. Commiserations to the other finalists Tony Kennedy and …Continue reading →

Drum Roll(s), please TAGS: Alumni | Champagne League | Doubles Championship | Graduate Cup The first of our Summer Tournaments has concluded with the CU Alumuni taking the honours (pun intended) over the other place’s Alumni. Full results, notably for another Vix, 7-all, 40-all …Continue reading →

The LRTA High/Low tournament hosted by CURTC TAGS: Hi/Lo | LRTA Anyone coming into the Club on September 4 or 5th, might have concluded an influx of (mostly) ageing lady tennis players had suddenly overwhelmed CURTC en masse. Not so – the Ladies Real Tennis Association (LRTA) was occupying the Blue Court for a tournament with the intriguing name of The High/Low…

20 Category Tournament TAGS: 20's | Category Apologies but camera and cameraman being in need of a recharge meant that Jacqui kindly improvised a couple of shots from the last final on Finals Day. And here they …Continue reading →

40 Category Tournament TAGS: 40 | Category Another 8-7 nail biter! This match featured two very contrasting players, underdog Charlie, left-handed, gives the ball a fair old whack and imparts a lot of spin especially on his …Continue reading →

T&RA Category Tournaments TAGS: Category | T&RA Not had enough Category Tournaments? If  so consider signing up for the T&RA versions. They are in September at various different Clubs (50 at Prested, 30 at Hatfield, the others …Continue reading →

60 Category Final TAGS: 60+ | Category | Finals Day Another 8-7 classic! TK shot off to an early lead and looked as if he was going to run away with it with a range of measured shots down the …Continue reading →

30 Category Final TAGS: 30 | Category I don’t know what Stephen had for breakfast on Saturday but he was clearly on top form when he reached the Court to play Andy on Finals Day. In wasn’t …Continue reading →

80+ Category Final TAGS: 80+ | Category Congratulations to Marcus and Catherine for ‘serving’ up a splendid inaugural 80+ Category Tournament final. The match had everything: fantastic serving, great shots, not so great shots and some splendid …Continue reading →

Live Stream of Finals Day, Sponsored by Hannay-Robertson Financial Planning TAGS: Finals Day | Live Stream Apologies but the gremlins were out in force today. Streams of most of the tennis are available at the links below. (The 80+ and 60 are a bit ‘spotty and …Continue reading →

Champagne League Finals TAGS: Champagne League | Pol Roger | Vix The finals of the CURTC Champagne Leagues sponsored by our favourite beverage, Pol Roger, took place over the weekend. Following hard fought group stages over the last two months, 16 finalists set out on a quest for a bottle of Pol…