Varsity Match Day 2 Report TAGS: Lord's | varsity The Cambridge team faced an uphill battle at Lord’s on the second day of the Real Tennis varsity match. The day would see the women’s doubles and men’s singles matches. …Continue reading →

Varsity Match Day 1 Report TAGS: Giraffe | Lord's | varsity Friday would see the Women’s Singles and Men’s Doubles matches at the beautiful tennis court behind the pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground. First up was Elle Curzon-Green (Cambridge) against Lottie …Continue reading →

2nd’s Varsity Report TAGS: 2nds | varsity Oxford took home the honours at the 2019 Varsity Seconds match in Cambridge last weekend. Play started on Friday afternoon with a win to ….. Special thanks to the Kees and Peter for their tireless marking, to Louise Ludekens for her excellent lunch on Saturday and to all of the senior members who brought cakes and nibbles for the players.

Varsity 2nds Day 2 TAGS: Giraffe | varsity

The Stream Team are Back… TAGS: varsity …but for two days only The Varsity 2nds take place this weekend at the Home of Real Tennis. Please come along to the Club and support if you can. If …Continue reading →

Giraffe Club Cup: Part 2 TAGS: Ed | Giraffe | Jamie Click on the Pictures for larger versions and/or the Caption of the Collages for a Google Photo Gallery of the individual images and more… But first and finally…

Giraffe Club Cup TAGS: Giraffe CURTC played host to the Giraffe Club Cup over the weekend to promote students Real Tennis in Cambridge, with 32 players across two divisions playing doubles. The match play was …Continue reading →

Inter-University Tournament, 2018 TAGS: Ed Hyde | inter-universities | IU2018 | Jimmy | Middlesex University For four days in late November, Cambridge and Newmarket Real Tennis clubs hosted over 60 fresh-faced students from nine universities across the UK for the annual Inter-University tournament. In addition to tournament debuts from….

Battle of the Amateur Champions TAGS: Ed | Giraffe | Jamie D Giraffe Club Cup & Blues Reunion, 1 – 3 February 2019 is an exciting new annual CURTC tournament. The idea is to invite previous Blues, Cambridge alumni and other Giraffe Club members to compete in a doubles tournament as part of the build up to the Varsity match (1-2 March 2019 at Lords).

Cambridge Weekend, sponsored by our good friends at Pol Roger TAGS: Cambridge Weekend | Giraffe | Pol Roger This year’s Cambridge Weekend featured a new Team Mixed Doubles Tournament, an ‘A Grade’ Doubles tournament for those too under handicapped to qualify for the aforementioned TMDT and myself commuting …Continue reading →

Varsity Match Update TAGS: Oxford | varsity Not going Cambridge’s way in the Ladies Varsity but our team are at a serious handicap disadvantage. Kudos to Helena & Alexandra who grab a set in the 2nd Doubles! …Continue reading →

And finally… part 4 TAGS: DofE | Poaching I promise you this is the last… Friday of the DofE Tennis Challenge was Seniors day and featured three matches with a brave HRH. In the second match with Anthony …Continue reading →

Behind the Scenes, part 3 TAGS: DofE | Juniors | Kees By any account, the Juniors session at the DofE Tennis Challenge at CURTC was pretty special. There are loads of photos of these sessions already out there and there are …Continue reading →

Behind the Scenes, part 2 TAGS: DofE | Ed | Jimmy | Kees | Matt | Olivia | Peter Of course, the DofE tennis challenge at Cambridge couldn’t have taken place without a large crew of volunteers. With apologies to those I missed, here are a few pictures in …Continue reading →

Behind the Scenes, part 1 TAGS: Blue Court | DofE | Giraffe | HRH Incredible couple of days at the home of Real Tennis as the HRH the Earl of Wessex ticked off the first two of courts on his DofE Real Tennis World Tour. One of the truly remarkable…