INTER LIVERY REAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
2 SEPTEMBER 2025
Wednesday 5th November 2025
We would like to update you with the announcement of Frostrow Capital as the Title Sponsor of this year's Inter Livery tournament. We are also delighted to welcome our Dinner Speaker, David Best, acclaimed author of The Royal Tennis Court, Tennis in Scotland, Tennis at Whitehall , 700 years of Tennis in London, and an official history of T&RA to celebrate the centenary celebrations in 2007; and co-author, with Brian Rich, of Disturb'd With Chaces: Tennis Courts, Celebrities and Scandals of Yesteryear.
The annual Inter Livery Real Tennis Competition is to be held at Queen’s Club on Wednesday 5th November 2025.
This is a doubles handicap tournament under the auspices of the Tennis & Rackets Association (“T&RA”). There will be a maximum of 24 pairs split between two competitions. The draft rules are attached below.
The day will start with registration, tea, coffee and pastries, and, after play, will conclude with a drinks reception and a black tie dinner. Masters, Liverymen, Freemen, partners and friends are encouraged to join their teams for the drinks reception and dinner.
You are invited to submit applications individually, using the button below, for each of a pair of players who are both members of your Company, Free or Liveried, and who are members of the T&RA. The deadline for applications is 8th September 2025. Should you be unable to find a partner within your own Company, please still submit the application and the organisers will endeavour to match you with a suitable partner if there is space available.
Successful applicants will be informed by Sunday 14th September and required to make payment by 19th September.
Applications for dinner only may be made on the link below. Refunds for dining fees can only be made for cancellations notified to the organisers before 24th October 2025.
he charge for the day will be £180 per player entered and includes tennis, marking, welcome teas/coffees/pastries, drinks reception and dinner. Tennis and morning refreshments only, without the drinks reception and dinner, will be £65 per person, and for the drinks reception and dinner are £135 per person.
Best wishes,
Richard Dalzell, Chris Kurkjian, Oliver Thompson, Charles Barrows and Peter Lovell