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Isaac and Mandie Weave Their Magic at Ipswich

11/01/24: Isaac Weaver & Mandie Barnes won the 2024 Graves Cup at Ipswich last Sunday, a first win in the competition for them both.

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Cooley Banks Ipswich Tournament

09/01/18: The Fives players of Ipswich celebrated the New Year in the style to which they have become accustomed over the years with the annual running of the Graves Cup, won this year by guest player Seb Cooley and young Ipswich schoolboy Harry Banks, neither of whom actually played in the qualifying rounds but who nevertheless ended up winning the trophy, in a move worthy of John Caudle himself.

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Cooley & Whitehead Win The Graves

11/01/23: The annual Ipswich Tournament for the Graves Cup was back in its traditional early January slot for the first time since 2020 at the weekend.

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2017 Ipswich Tournament: Lyle and Lumbard Leave Graves Challengers Dead and Buried

09/01/17: With 2016 finally consigned to the scrap heap of history, January 2017 saw the Graves Cup sailing towards the Fives players of Ipswich like a lifeboat of hope amongst the shipwrecked carnage caused by Brexit, a Trump Presidency and Ipswich Town finding themselves 2-1 down to Lincoln with 5 minutes to go in the Cup. 

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Cass & Gray Dig The Summer Graves

26/07/22: Last seen in January 2020 and with two successive editions falling victim to the pandemic, the Ipswich Tournament for the Graves Cup finally returned last weekend.

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Gray and Watts Win in Ipswich

The 2016 edition of the Ipswich Tournament was won by OIs Oli Watts and James Gray, who beat Seb Cooley and his Ipswich schoolboy partner Tom Conway in the final after an excellent weekend's Fives, which proved that this tournament - first played in 1979 - is in fine fettle and flourishing more than ever.

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Ipswich Tournament: Fives Free Won Two One

Setting the tone is always important and the first Fives tournament of the decade got everything off to a great start with a vintage edition of the Ipswich Tournament.

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Graves Cup 2015: Burnell and Morgan Roll Out the Barrel

In recent years it has often been said that the 3rd round of the FA Cup has rather lost its lustre and is no longer one of the standout weekends in the sporting calendar. Many reasons have been put forward for this decline, from the tightening of the Premier League's soulless corporate grip on the game to the fielding of weakened teams to the disappearance of boggy January mudbath pitches and John Motson's fabled sheepskin coat.

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Graves Cup 2019: Box Office Gold

07/01/19: The pantomime season is well and truly here once again (oh yes it is) and the annual Ipswich Graves Cup production took place to rave reviews at the weekend.

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Ipswich Tournament 2014: Any Port in a Storm

The 2014 Ipswich Tournament took place at the weekend, with the usual assortment of Ipswichians past and present plus guests taking part in a splendid weekend of Fives. Seb Cooley and Charlie Blackmore emerged from the wreckage of the Saturday night dinner to take the title, defeating Will Gibbons and Karen Hird in the final.

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