News in Teddington

Harlequins beat Premiership leaders Leicester Tigers to record a sixth straight Premiership win and strengthen their grip on third place.

International hockey will return to the Twickenham Stoop this June when England take on the Netherlands in the FIH Hockey Pro League.

It will be three years since Big Stadium Hockey made its first appearance at the home of Quins and the pitch turned blue. Back in 2019 Great Britain won both matches, so it's a return to winning turf.

England's under-performing rugby team has the chance to be prove

it's improving with matches against two of the best teams in the world, less than a year out from the 2023 World Cup in France. In consecutive weekends in November coach Eddie Jones's squad will face the All Blacks (November 19) and current World Champions South Africa (November 26) at Twickenham. The two other matches in the Autumn Nation Series will be against Argentina and Japan over the previous two weekends. As well as these testing pre-World Cup fixtures England's last Guinness Six Nations before the World Cup will be three big matches at Twickenham a year from now against France, Scotland and Italy. In a message to fans yesterday (March 24), the much-criticised RFU said thank you for 'ensuring a sell-out of all five international matches at Twickenham Stadium this season." It added: "It was fantastic to finally welcome back capacity crowds." Today RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney told a press conference the players had faith in current coach Eddie Jones and they were 'heading in the right direction.'

The Club are delighted to confirm the first of our pre season friendly matches in the build up to the start of the 2022/23 season.

Current Pro 14 champions Leinster Rugby will take on Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop, kick off 19:30 on Friday 2 September.

LOCAL rugby team Harlequins is joining forces with the military charity Tickets For Troops to offer free tickets to members of the UK's Armed Forces in recognition of their efforts in keeping us safe and secure, the Club is proud to announce.

The Club will make tickets available free of charge for both Men's and Women's matches wherever possible as part of the partnership with the charity which was set up in 2009 and has given over 1.6million tickets away for sports, theatre and music events since launch.

Women's rugby union is one of the world's fastest-growing female sports, with more than 2.7 million women currently participating in the game globally.

In fact, as more women continue to head down to their local rugby clubs, female players now make up 27 per cent of the sport's playing population worldwide.

Japan will be hoping to use the Tokyo Olympic Games to project the image of innovation and their power in Asia.

Now, the questions about the sporting integrity of the Olympics keep growing as athletes arrive in Tokyo, test positive, and have to pull out.

The remedial work to the tennis courts at Udney Park Playing Fields, dealing with years of neglect, is almost complete and set to open in two weeks time on March 29th.

Under a sub-lease from Teddington RFC, the courts are now managed by Tennis for Teddington and a whole host of activities are scheduled in the coming month.

Two ex-players of local Teddington football club, Weirside Rangers AFC, have recently launched a football team website, The Club HQ, aimed at allowing all grassroots and charity teams to have a great affordable platform to promote themselves.

Having been involved for Weirside Rangers for almost 20 years, Andy Yates (co-founder) explains their objectives:

Teddington Cricket Club is appealing to its members for financial support following the uncertainty surrounding the start of the cricket season and the reopening of the new Pavilion because of COVID-19, it has been revealed.

In a statement the Club states: "As we are all aware there is now no doubt that the start of the cricket season will be delayed and there is significant uncertainty about when we will be able to start playing cricket and reopen our Pavilion for social activity.