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2022 Champions Trophy (real Tennis)
The 2022 Champions Trophy was the 4th edition of the Champions Trophy (real tennis), Champions Trophy. It was held at the Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court, Royal Tennis Court from 21 to 26 June It was a qualifying event for the 2023 Real Tennis World Championship. It was the first Champions Trophy held since 2019 due to the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports, COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was won by defending champion and incumbent Real Tennis World Championship, World Champion Robert Fahey. It was his second victory in the tournament. Ben Taylor-Matthews was the runner-up for the second time, having also been runner-up in the inaugural edition. The two finalists also met in the first round, with Fahey also the victor. World Championship challenger for 2022 Real Tennis World Championship, 2022 Camden Riviere did not attend. Draw and results ''Amateur players are marked as (A)'' Qualifying The qualifying was one group of four players, with the top two players progre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Real Tennis Professionals Association
International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * International (Kevin Michael album), ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * International (New Order album), ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * International (The Three Degrees album), ''International'' (The Three Degrees album), 1975 *''International'', 2018 album by L'Algérino Songs * The Internationale, the left-wing anthem * International (Chase & Status song), "International" (Chase & Status song), 2014 * "International", by Adventures in Stereo from ''Monomania'', 2000 * "International", by Brass Construction from ''Renegades'', 1984 * "International", by Thomas Leer from ''The Scale of Ten'', 1985 * "International", by Kevin Michael from International (Kevin Michael album), ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * "International", by McGuinness Flint from ''McGuinness Flint'', 1970 * "International", by Orchestral Manoeuvre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Real Tennis World Championship
The 2022 Real Tennis World Championship was a real tennis tournament held at Prested Hall in Feering, Essex, England in September 2022. Rob Fahey, the 13-time and reigning world champion, was beaten by the challenger, and former champion, Camden Riviere. The challenge had been originally scheduled to take place in April 2020, but was postponed to September 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Qualification As the defending champion, Robert Fahey qualified directly to the World Championship Challenge. The challenger was determined through a series of eliminator matches. Qualification to the eliminator matches was based on results in major tournaments in 2018 and 2019. Four players were declared eligible to compete: # Camden Riviere, Tennis and Racquet Club, Boston # Chris Chapman, Royal Melbourne Tennis Club # Ben Taylor-Matthews, Leamington Tennis Court Club, Leamington # Nick Howell, International Tennis Hall of Fame, Newport, Rhode Island Former champion Riviere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Chapman (real Tennis)
Chris Chapman (born 23 April 1985) is an Australian professional real tennis player formerly ranked world number 3 and currently based at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club. Chapman challenged for the Real Tennis World Championship on 3 occasions, reaching the Final Eliminator in 2020. Over his career, he won 3 Open singles titles, 2 at the Australian Open and 1 at the French Open. He also holds 5 Open doubles titles. In 2023 during the British Open, he announced his retirement from international competitions, although he still competes in Australian competitions, notably winning the 2025 Australian Open Doubles. Career Chapman began his career as a squash player, playing in the Victorian Open Championships in 2004. In 2007, he began playing real tennis as a professional at the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club. After just five months playing the sport, he competed at his first Australian Open in January 2008, winning his first competitive match against Patrick Winthrop in 5 sets, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Long
Darren Long (born 26 September 1988) is a British professional real tennis player, currently the head professional at the Moreton Morrell Tennis Court Club. He is currently ranked thirteenth in the world at singles and twelfth in the world at doubles. He has reached an Open doubles semi final on three occasions, most recently at the 2024 US Open and the 2024 Australian Open. Career Long grew up as a squash player and took a job as a squash coach at Canford School. There, he learned real tennis under the head professional Steve Ronaldson. Long improved quickly – after picking up the game in 2009, he won the Category B Open at Hyde Real Tennis Club in 2010. Later that year, he won the Taylor Cup – a tournament for new professionals – in Manchester, beating John Lumley in the final. Long started competing in the Opens in 2011, losing in the first round of the US Open, and failing to progress from qualifying in the French and British Opens. Long would reach t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryn Sayers
Bryn Sayers (born April or August 1985) is a British professional real tennis player currently ranked at number seven in the world. He unsuccessfully challenged for the Real Tennis World Championship on four occasions, reaching the Final Eliminator in 2014 against Camden Riviere. He holds two singles Open titles, having won both in 2012. He works as the senior professional at the Queen's Club in London. Career Sayers began playing real tennis at the Seacourt Tennis Club on Hayling Island. He was very successful in the junior ranks, winning age group championships at the British Junior Open at Queen's every year between 1996 and 2001, where he competed against future World Champion Camden Riviere. Aged 17, he entered qualifying for his first British Open in 2002, beating Ged Parsons but losing to Andrew Fowler. He won the British Under 21's Open at Middlesex University from 2003 to 2005, and was a losing finalist to Riviere in 2006. He later won the British Under 24's Open i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Gale
Levi ( ; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites. Most scholars view the Torah as projecting the origins of the Levites into the past to explain their role as landless cultic functionaries. Origins The Torah suggests that the name ''Levi'' refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to ''join'' with her, implying a derivation from Hebrew ''yillaweh'', meaning ''he will join'', but scholars suspect that it may simply mean "priest", either as a loanword or by referring to those people who were ''joined'' to the Ark of the Covenant. Another possibility is that the Levites were a tribe of Judah not from the clan of Moses or Aaron and that the name "Levites" indicates their ''joining'' - either with the Israelites in gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Mackenzie
Neil David MacKenzie (born 15 April 1976) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 38 goals in 479 league and cup appearances across a 19-year career. Starting his career at Stoke City in 1996, after three years, he moved on to Cambridge United, following a short loan period. After this, he spent a season with Kidderminster Harriers, then another season with Blackpool, before signing with Mansfield Town in 2002. After two years, he transferred to Scunthorpe United, where he was loaned out to Hereford United, before signing with Notts County in 2007. County loaned him back to both former club Kidderminster and Port Vale in 2008 before he joined Tamworth in 2009 via another old club, Mansfield Town. In 2011, he switched to Evesham United via St Neots Town. He joined Halesowen Town in 2013 and helped the club to the Northern Premier League Division One South title in 2013–14, then moved on to Hinckley AFC in July 2015. Career Stoke City MacK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Smith (real Tennis)
Joshua Smith (born December 5, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Entering the NBA straight out of high school, Smith played nine seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, for the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers between 2013 and 2016. His final stint in the NBA came in November 2017 with the New Orleans Pelicans. He is sometimes referred to by his nickname "J-Smoove". High school career Smith attended John McEachern High in Powder Springs, Georgia. During the summer before his senior year, he played alongside future NBA players Randolph Morris and Dwight Howard on the Atlanta Celtics AAU team. Smith transferred to Oak Hill Academy for his senior year where he was teammates with Rajon Rondo. He averaged 22 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 6 blocks, and 3 steals per game on the season, helping lead Oak Hill to 38–0 record. Smith was highly recruited as Rivals.com rated him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Williams (real Tennis)
Lewis Williams may refer to: *Lewis Williams (politician) (1782–1842), American politician *Lewis Williams (boxer) (born 1998), English boxer *Lewy Williams (Lewis Williams, born 2002), Welsh darts player *Lewis Williams (real tennis) (born 1994), British real tennis player *Lewis Williams (rugby union) (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player *Lewis B. Williams Jr. (1833–1863), Confederate officer during the American Civil War *Lewis A. Williams (1852-1935), Chicago saloonkeeper and co-creator of Cohasset Punch See also *Lew Williams (1934–2019), American singer *Louis Williams (other) *David Lewis-Williams (born 1934), South African scholar {{hndis, Williams, Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camden Riviere
Camden Riviere (born 1987) is an American left-handed real tennis player and current world champion. He became world champion on May 21, 2016, defeating long-time holder Robert Fahey 7 sets to 2 at Riviere's home court, the National Tennis Club, Newport, Rhode Island. Two years later, at Riviere's first defense of the title, Fahey reclaimed the title beating Riviere by 7 sets to 5 at Queen's Club, London. Riviere regained the title from Fahey at the 2022 World Championship played at Prested Hall in Feering, Essex, England, winning by 7 sets to 5. He retained the title in 2023, defeating John Lumley 7 sets to 3 at the Westwood Country Club in Vienna, Virginia. Since September 2013, Riviere has been ranked world number 1. Early life Camden Scott Riviere was born May 20, 1987, in Charleston, South Carolina, but was raised in nearby Aiken, South Carolina. He started playing real tennis at age 5 with his father Rhett and grandfather Hank at the Aiken Tennis Club and played his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Taylor-Matthews
Ben Taylor-Matthews (born 27 July 1984) is a professional British Real Tennis player based at Bristol Real Tennis Club. His career high ranking is world number 4, and his current ranking is 5. To date, he is yet to win a major singles title but has contested two Australian Open finals, as well as an IRTPA Championships final, plus four Champions Trophy finals. He unsuccessfully challenged for the World Championship on three occasions, most recently in 2023. He is due to challenge again for the World Championship in 2025. Career Taylor-Matthews began his real tennis career as a trainee professional at the Hyde Real Tennis Club in Bridport, Dorset. He quickly rose through the ranks of the game, dropping his handicap below 20.0 in 2004. He played his first top-level tournament at the 2004 IRTPA Championships at The Oratory School, defeating Craig Greenhalgh in qualifying, but losing to Ricardo Smith in the first round. In 2006, he moved to the Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a Listed building, Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Opened to the public, the palace is managed by Historic Royal Palaces, a charity set up to preserve several unoccupied royal properties. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York and the chief minister of Henry VIII. In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the king to try to save his own life, which he knew was now in grave danger due to Henry VIII's deepening frustration and anger. The palace went on to become one of Henry's most favoured residences; soon after acquiring the property, he arranged for it to be enlarged so it could accommodate his sizeable retinue of Courtier, courtiers. In the early 1690s, William III of England, William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival the Palace of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
