David Hope triumphs again in the 60+ tournament TAGS: 60+ | Category | Hope On Sunday 22nd February 2015 13 lucky members contested the CURTC Category Tournament for handicaps 60 or greater.  Spread across 4 groups and playing on both courts the group stages …Continue reading →

Blood, sweat and possibly tears in the 2015 CURTC 40-49ers Tournament TAGS: 40 | Category The 40-49 Category tournament took place onSunday 15th February 2015 and it turned out to be a case of ‘survival of the fittest’ or ‘last man standing’. An assortment of …Continue reading →

2015 Category Tournaments kick off with the 50-59ers TAGS: 50 | Category The CURTC 50-59 Category tournament was held on Sunday 8th February 2015. 8 entrants were separated into two groups, with each being dominated by a Jeremy.

Paddy Ward is CURTC’s 30-39 Category Champion for 2014 TAGS: 30 | Category There were only three entrants for the 30-39 this year, Julian Stafford, Nick Heath and Paddy Ward, so they played each other in a one-set-first-to-8-games round-robin event. Nick lost heavily …Continue reading →

Category 40-49 handicap tournament champion holds onto his title TAGS: 40 | Category The winner of this year’s 40-49 tournament was Gary Weller, who retained the trophy he collected last year, beating Ben Graham 6-4 in the final. The finalists each won their …Continue reading →

Category 50-59 Tournament won by Anthony Bailey TAGS: 50 | Category Several tight games that could have gone either way featured in the annual battle to find the 50-59 Category giant of the club. There were only five players in this …Continue reading →

Category 60+ handicap tournament gets the 2014 CURTC competition season off to a flying start TAGS: 60+ | Category Some exciting round robin matches last weekend saw Bernie ‘the socks’ Carpenter, David Hope, Kate Kirk and Imogen Whittam make it through to the semi-finals of this year’s 60+ contest. …Continue reading →

20-29 Tournament sees students on top TAGS: 20's | Alex | Category | Jimmy March 24th, 2013 After the first three rubbers in this year’s 20-29 tournament all ended with the same score, 8-6, the organiser feared the championship would go down to a …Continue reading →

Alastair Kwan takes 30-39 Trophy TAGS: 30 | Category The CURTC 30-39 Category Tournament was played on Sunday 17th March 2013. Two keenly contested groups fought it out for semi-final places. In one group Alastair Kwan dropped only 2 …Continue reading →

Gary Weller wins 40-49 Category TAGS: 40 | Category The 40-49 category tournament was played on the weekend of 23rd and 24th February 2013. In the first group Jon Dawson powered his way through to take the first semi-final …Continue reading →

40-49 Handicap Category Tournament Results TAGS: 40 | Category After Ben Graham fell to Nigel Parslow and Philippe Nemery fell to Keith Beechener in the semi-finals, the 40-49 handicap tournament was won by Nigel Parslow, beating Keith Beechener 6-2 …Continue reading →

Cambridge Handicaps adjusted for all above 35 TAGS: Category The large number of new players taking up real tennis and improving quickly at Cambridge has the effect of increasing the handicaps of players with established handicaps. From time to …Continue reading →

CURTC 30-39 Category Tournament – Sun 17 Feb, 2008 TAGS: 30 | Category | Trapp At last. A tournament that ran (more or less) according to schedule. Three closely contested round robin groups and proper semi-finals that were marred only by an injury to Paul …Continue reading →

CURTC 40-49 Category Tournament – Sat 16 Feb, 2008 TAGS: 40 | Category | Linda It seems that the best laid plans of mice and men feature not at all in CURTC category tournaments. After sweating courts in the 50-59, this time it was the …Continue reading →

Jeremy Davidson triumphs in the first of the Season’s Category Tournaments TAGS: 60+ | Category This season the Category Tournaments (for players within set ranges of ability) are being held in order of descending handicap. The 60+ competition kicked off proceedings on Saturday 1st December …Continue reading →