As the next lockdown begins, the UK Government has introduced Covid rules that for once don't require us to act, as we had already cancelled the UK Tour for the remainder of this season, so with nothing else to do, I thought we should have our UK Racketlon Review of the Year 2020. In summary, it...

Last night (Tuesday 8th September), the UK Racketlon Board was holding a meeting with a view to running the Stamford Open as a COVID-secure Racketlon test event with a view to then running the Hertfordshire Open in Letchworth 3 weeks later and a hope of adding in some additional events later in the...

With regret, we have to announce that the 2020 Yorkshire Open (Saturday 19th September) is now cancelled.  As with the Richard Lawrence Open, this is due to the venue not being able to accommodate us at this time.  As no doubt many of you are aware, a number of sports centres are choosing at...

Unfortunately we are tonight forced to announce the cancellation of the Richard Lawrence Open, which was scheduled for the weekend of the 12th and 13th September.  The new venue at the University of Reading will not be opening until later in September, and as such the event will therefore not be...

You may now be aware of announcements from the FIR today that the 2020 IWT Finnish Open scheduled for the 18th to 20th September 2020 has now opened for entry, and that the FIR has released further information on the World Tour from September onwards.  As a result, UK Racketlon wished to quickly...

The 2020 County Championships went virtual for the first time ever as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic and 11 households representing 8 counties did battle for the title. The 2019 Champions (their reign extended until 2021), Nottingham were represented by Jon Spinks, who was looking to add the...

As we announced a few weeks ago, the 2020 County Championships will be a virtual affair, based on Zoom, taking place on Saturday 27th June from 2pm to around 3:30pm.  As we are just a week away, we are now in a position to reveal a few additional details.  

As we revealed, there will be four quiz...

As we announced earlier this month, the UK Tour is suspended until September; and this means that the 2020 County Championships on court is cancelled.  However, team Racketlon is one of the most enjoyable aspects because it brings us together in a way that is different to singles or doubles.  As...

After a meeting of the UK Racketlon board this evening, we can confirm that we have taken the decision to extend the suspension of the UK Tour until the start of September.  As a result the Northumberland Open, Staffordshire Open, the County Championships and the East Anglian Open are all now...

Unfortunately, UK Racketlon can now confirm that the Edinburgh Open scheduled for Sunday 17th May has been cancelled, due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.  All entrants will be contacted and entries refunded as soon as possible.  Please bare in mind these need to be processed manually by Alex Du...

It is with regret that we can now update the information we provided last Friday to confirm that the UK Racketlon Tour is suspended through until at least the start of May.  In addition to the 2020 Cotswolds Open, which was cancelled on Sunday, this announcement means that the British Championships...

Please see the below message from Jon Spinks, the Tournament Director for the Cotswolds Open, which was scheduled for Sunday 3rd May. All players who had already entered will be contacted shortly and UK Racketlon will facilitate the refund of all entries (but this may take some time), as per our...

As you will now most likely be aware, the FIR Nick Matthew Steel City Open, scheduled to start next Friday (20th March) in Sheffield has now been cancelled, along with all FIR World Tour events until the end of April.  The FIR and tournament director Duncan Stahl were left with no choice due to the...

The fourth iteration of the UK Racketlon Super Series got underway with the 2020 East Midlands Open in Nottingham.  With all the information, including a very special guest (trophy), is our newest correspondent, Emma Leighton.  

East Midlands Open

An exciting East Midlands event and season...

In the wake of the epic British team victory at the 2019 World Championships, Dan Busby decided to stand down as the British team captain and as a member of the selection panel.  This has opened up a vacancy and UK Racketlon are delighted to announce that our new GB Team Captain and member of the...

As mentioned in the recent Newsletter, we have been busy adding events to the UK Tour, and since that newsletter went out we have added an additional two events, both seeing Racketlon back in something of its spiritual homes, Redbridge and Edinburgh.  

Good Friday 10th April (Bank Holiday) - The...

Entry for the 2020 County Championships is open on Tournament Software here. Featuring as part of our Festival of Racketlon at Keele University, the County Championships will be played on Sunday 28th June, (with the Staffordshire Open the day before). The match format will once again be:

3 x Men’s...

Last Sunday, the UK Tour entered its third decade, the 2020's; it has grown from being a bare handful of geographically limited tournaments into an event that covers the country and as a focal point of a sport that truly covers the globe.  Throughout this has been one constant, the British...