Hird & Houlden Out On Their Own In The Individual

20/09/21: The season's first competitive weekend action saw some of the top male and female players in the country head to Eton to take part in the revived Ranking/Individual Tournament in association with Advanta Wealth, producing an often spectacular series of matches featuring some rarely seen pairings.

2012 Ranking Tournament: Cohen ranks highly

Guy Chapman reports:

The second ever EFA Rankings Tournament took place at Eton on Sunday.

We had a very strong set of ten players taking part, albeit without the top four from the official rankings list, who all had other engagements. With just ten the format changed slightly to ‘Winner Stays on; Different partners / opponents each game’, but with the same general principle of playing as an individual against a variety of pairings. The well matched pairings made for some long and close games, and I’m pleased to report that every player won at least one of their four games, and there were no one-sided contests.

2011 Ranking Tournament: Cooley outranks the rest

The inaugural EFA Ranking Tournament was held yesterday at Eton and won by Seb Cooley.