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ZONE 6 – Asia Pacific Bridge Federation (APBF)
This year’s Asia Pacific Bridge Federation Championships starts on Friday 9th June in Hong Kong. New Zealand will be represented in three events, Open, Mixed and Women with the following being our respective teams:
OPEN
Michael Cornell and Ashley Bach
Michael Whibley and Matthew Brown
Martin Reid and Peter Newell
WOMEN
Christine Gibbons and Jenna Gibbons
Carol Richardson and Andi Boughey
Kinga Hajmasi and Candice Smith
MIXED
Stephen and Annette Henry
Ian Berrington and Fuxia Wen
Sam and Jo Simpson
The competitions are a double round-robin finishing on Thursday 15th June. These will be followed by Zonal play-offs for the Bermuda Bowl/Venice Cup later in the year, though Zone 7, Australasia, has two spots in these events.
There are 13 teams in the Open field, 12 in the Mixed, 11 in the Ladies and 8 in the Seniors’ competition.
Some of the matches will be covered on BBO. Play starts 3.30pm on Day 1 New Zealand time, there being a 4 hour time difference. On most days, play starts at 1.00pm New Zealand time.
We will endeavour to bring daily reports of how our teams fare.
Here is the link to the APBF website.
https://www.ccba.org.cn/Tour/TourIndex.aspx?tourid=23144
We wish our teams well. We hope to have the first report on Saturday.
Richard Solomon