Westward Ho TAGS: Bristol | BRTC | Oxford A squad of CURTC’s finest are back from their trip to the mid west and west of the UK’s Real Tennis Clubs. First up was Oxford on Saturday. We did …Continue reading →

Inter Livery Real Tennis Competition – 17th October 2017 at Queen’s Club, London TAGS: Livery Tournament | Sox David Carpenter, one of our new Liverymen and his doubles partner Miles Buckinghamshire of the Glovers’ Company won the “B” division of the Inaugural Inter Livery Real Tennis Competition held …Continue reading →

Brodie Cup: Jesmond 2-3 Cambridge TAGS: Brodie | Jesmond It’s a long way to Jesmond but well worth the effort as the Club have made huge strides recently in securing the future of their magnificent Court and our favourite …Continue reading →

The Sox is Back TAGS: Distillers | Psigma | Sox After 2 and half hours on Court at Queen’s Club, the Doubles pairing of our very own Bernie (Sox) Carpenter (Distillers) and Miles Buckingham (Glovers) managed to win the inaugural …Continue reading →

Cambridge v Newmarket, Sept 30th 2017 TAGS: Linda | Newmarket It is always a pleasure to visit Newmarket to enjoy the marking of Andrew Knibbs, the Brian Blessed of the Real Tennis world, whose volume is matched only by the …Continue reading →

CURTC v Old Rugbeians TAGS: Ol' Rugbeians The 2017/18 season got off to a competitive start against Old Rugbeains with a hard fought draw, 2 all. The top doubles pair of 2 unrelated Firths, John and James, …Continue reading →

East Anglia Cup TAGS: East Anglia Cup | Hatfield | Newmarket | Prested | Vix The EAC is an end of season tournie featuring our three neighbours Prested, Newmarket and Hatfield for (roughly speaking) 45-55 handicappers. The format is a round robin between the clubs …Continue reading →

Double Header! TAGS: CU Ladies | Dedanists | RTC CURTC hosted two matches last Saturday. The CU Ladies took on RTC, see Amanda’s match report below while The Dedanists took on CURTC in a close fought match and even …Continue reading →

CURTC Ladies vs RTC Ladies (& Nick) TAGS: CU Ladies | RTC To finish off a gruelling term of exams, the CURTC ladies took on the RTC Ladies in Cambridge on Saturday. Ellie McAleese debuted for Cambridge at 9:00am on the Green court against Alison Cryer of RTC (don’t worry… the wonderful new 2017/18 Ladies Captain, Olivia Chesser, was also at the courts at the start of that early May week hour)

CURTC get Stuck on M4 and come Unstuck on Court TAGS: Holyport | Jules It was off to Holyport on Saturday and off we certainly were (with one notable exception). Our trip down was almost asymptotic, the closer we got, the slower we crawled. But eventually we arrived to see some (unscheduled)…

Varsity Captains’ Challenge (and AGM) TAGS: AGM | Amanda | Jimmy Our Varsity Captains gamely went on Court following the CURTC’s AGM* last Thursday. The Beard (Jimmy Campbell) was under some discomfort handicapwise to the tune of rec 30, owe h30, …Continue reading →

Brigands share the spoils TAGS: Brigands A fun afternoon of tennis ended with CURTC and The Brigands even at 2 apiece with the final Doubles being definitely the MOTD. CURTC’s Perriton/Parslow combo fought back from losing …Continue reading →

Cambridge vs Manchester, National League, Thursday 13th @5:30pm Manchester visited for a Club match on Sunday and will be back in the form of their National League Elite/Premier Division team to take on our very own Ed Kay …Continue reading →

Note to Self… TAGS: Leamington A visit to Leamington, on the day when British Summertime starts

Hardwick House pay a Visit TAGS: Hardwick February is mostly dedicated to the Category tournaments and practice for a series of matches against the other place at the end of the month. However, a visit from Hardwick …Continue reading →