 Great day's Racketball in Wakefield at the 6th HEAD UK-Racketball Series event of the season.
Winners A Grade: Neil Baldwin Over 40's: Paul Johnson Over 50's: Lee Sadler Over 60's: Andy Mitchell Follow this link to see all the results, reports and photos The National Racketball Doubles will take place on 8-9 October at Hallamshire Squash Club in Sheffield. Organiser: Tom Murton tom@hallamshire.net 0114 2662153 
New National Rankings including the recent events in Nottingham and Devon. Follow this link to the main rankings page. You are able to access all individual ranking lists from here. A really big thank you to Racketball enthusiast Lee Sadler for all his hard work in entering the results and creating this months rankings!  The UK-Racketball Series events are coming thick and fast at the moment. Two weeks ago we were in Nottingham, on Saturday it was Devon and next week we are in Yorkshire for the Wakefield event. Follow this link to see the results and read the reports from Devon. Follow this link for photos. Follow this link for videos. The next event in the Series is no. 6 in Wakefield on 24th September - Entries close Monday 19th September - Click here for more info  Follow this link to the Devon Racketball Open Draws.
Any problems email me as soon as you can mark@starsportsdevelopment.com “If England Squash wishes to concentrate on squash - which will clearly be to the detriment of Racketball - just say so, don't dress it up and 'spin it'.” The late Michael Keogh, Racketball enthusiast, in an email to Keir Worth CEO England Squash (ES). The World Squash Federation (WSF) and ES have decided to try and rename Racketball, ‘Squash57’. I know that many of the members of my website, UK-Racketball.com, and players that play the UK-Racketball Series are confused by what the changes are designed to accomplish. From what I can make out from the press release on the WSF and ES websites the change is trying to achieve the following; “We hope that increased synergy between squash and squash57 will broaden appeal and create a stronger playing community” Keir Worth. The main issue with this is that as Andrew Shelley Chief Executive of WSF points out “current players will doubtlessly still call Squash 57 by its old name”. This immediately creates a problem when trying to achieve “synergy”, within the sport; with the national governing body calling it one thing and the players calling it something else. Follow this link for the full article  Follow this link to the draws and schedules for this years competition.
We have done a rankings update and seeded all the draws based on the current National Rankings, these are the numbers in brackets after the names. Head to the rankings tabs for more information.  Event 4 of the HEAD UK-Racketball 2016 Series is to be held at Nottingham Squash Rackets Club on Saturday 27th August.
2016 will be the 7th year in a row that Nottingham has hosted a UK-Racketball Series Event, making it our longest standing venue. Secure your entry now as the entry deadline is at midnight on Friday 19th August. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO HAS ALREADY ENTERED ONLINE Any late entries contact Mark Fuller directly on 07846 067505 or email mark@starsportsdevelopment.com  Nottingham Squash Rackets Club has hosted 6 previous UK-Racketball Series Events, making it the longest standing venue in the Series. We are returning on Saturday 27th August to find out if a new selection of Racketball players will join the long list of winners. Follow this link to our Hall of Fame see all the champions since we started the Nottingham Racketball Open in 2010. Over the next few months we will try to build the Hall of Fame for all grades at all events. The defending champions from the Nottingham Racketball Open 2015 are: A Grade - Mark Fuller B Grade - Kasey Hall Over 40's - Andy Wood Over 50's - Patrick Osborn Over 60's - Andy Mitchell Women's - Rachel Woolford Read more about the 2015 event here or to see photos, click here. The Nottingham Racketball Open - Saturday 27th August 2016 What: Nottingham Racketball Open - Event 4 UKRB 2016 Series
When: Saturday 27th August 2016 Where: Nottingham Squash Rackets Club Postcode: NG7 1BX Cost: £15.00 (includes a free tournament T-shirt) Grades: A, B, Over 40's, Over 50's, Over 60's, Women's, Beginners Online Entry: Click here For more information or if you have any queries, email Mark Fuller at mark@starsportsdevelopment.com or call Mark on 07846 067505. With under one week until entries close, CLICK HERE TO ENTER.  The 7th Portugal Racketball Open will be held in Cascais next February 11th. Keep a space in your diary - more details to follow.  This year’s event was hosted, for the first time, at the Liverpool Cricket Club on Saturday 16th July. With entrants coming from across the Country, it was a fantastic day of racketball with some very exciting and hard fought games. Following the usual one-day format, all matches were best of 3 games with all players getting at least 3 matches.
For full reports click here:  Women’s
With a late withdrawal in the Women’s category of Vicky Toates, who was unavailable due to her hen do duties, left a straight play-off between Nicky Green and Holly Moore. Nicky got off to a great start took the first game with relative ease, only to see Holly come back fighting as she took an early 6-0 lead... To view the full reports from each of the grades then head over to the Hallamshire Racketball Open 2016 page or click here Videos are being uploaded to youtube on lawrence ogden channel. Some are already up more are to follow. Follow this link to view the videos from this event and previous tournaments! Follow this link to the Hallamshire page to see the draws and schedules http://www.uk-racketball.com/hallamshire---30th-july.html
Follow this link to the Hallamshire page to see the final entry list for this event.
http://www.uk-racketball.com/hallamshire---30th-july.html Draw will come out on Monday 25th of July with schedule to follow late on Tuesday 26th July. Please email me as soon as possible if there are any errors with the entry. mark@starsportsdevelopment.com Very best of luck to all competitors!  The Hallamshire Racketball Open is returning to one of the country's best Racketball centres, Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club, on Saturday 30th July.
Don't miss out on your chance to play on the Nick Matthew Championship Court. With spaces filling up fast and the entry deadline in only 2 days, secure your entry now. Entry deadline: Midnight on Friday 22nd July CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE ENTRIES. For more information call Mark Fuller on 07846 067505 or click here.  Saturday 30th July - less than 1 week to enter!
2015 welcomed our very first HEAD UK-Racketball Series Event at one of the country's best Racketball centres: Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club. Following its huge success and positive response, we are excited to be returning this year on Saturday 30th July for the Hallamshire Racketball Open 2016. Click here to see who has entered so far! For online entry click here. Last year saw some fantastic Racketball and the winners were as follows: A Grade - Ollie Turner B Grade - Kasey Hall Women's - Nina Parker Over 40's - Jason Fearn Over 50's - Michael Wardle Over 60's - Richard Waller Hello all, I have not been sent any results from the National Racketball Championships yet but am trying to track them down! I have had a few enquires from players asking where they can find them online. The only place I can see is www.squashsite.co.uk where they have published that Valia and Lawrence are National Champions. I assume this is Vail taking his 8th Title!  Follow this direct link to page www.squashsite.co.uk/2016/racketballnats2016.htm All that you can see is the winners from each grade. I will try and get full results for the UK-Racketball website as soon as possible. Well done to everyone who took part in the event. Mark |
September 2016
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