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MONDAY REPORT. MATTHEW BROWN WINS OPEN PAIRS.

Congratulations to all the Kiwis who did well in the various Pairs and Swiss Pairs events. Leading the way was Matthew Brown who with his Australian partner, Johnno Newman, retained their lead to win the Gold Coast Open Pairs.

Barry and Jody Whale won the Gold Coast Restricted Pairs. In the same event, Jolene Zink – Susan Brown won the D Final and Jane O’Brien – Chris Hagen the E Final.

Lyn Mould – Erica Tie won the C Final of the Gold Coast Intermediate Pairs.

These then are the final results from the Saturday-Monday play of Kiwis and their partners:

Gold Coast Congress Open Pairs

1.	Matthew Brown – Johnno Newman	171.38
4.	Kornel Lazar – Tom Jacob	163.26
5.	Michael Ware – GeO Tislevoll	162.67
10.	Roger Lee – Michael Whibley	156.28
17.	Ella Jacob – Glenn Coutts	150.73
24.	Barry Jones – Jenny Millington	136.42
25.	Karen Martelletti – Julie Sheridan	132.07
27.	Vicki Bouton – Stephen Williams	126.32
28	Brian Cleaver – Debbie McLeod	122.82

B Final: Nye Griffiths and Nick Jacob were 2^nd, Sue Ingham and Michael Courtney 8^th and Alister Stuck- Andrew Tarbutt 11^th.

C Final: Ian Berrington – Fuxia Wen finished 4^th and Paula Boughey- Duncan Badley 6^th

E Final: Wayne Burrows- Murat Genc finished 2^nd 

F Final: Kate Davies and John Patterson were 2nd in the F final.

GOLD COAST SENIOR PAIRS

Final A

4.	Pat and Martin Oyston	165.95
10.	Glenis Palmer – Christine Wilson	154.56
14.	Barry Palmer – Neil Stuckey	151.19

Kees de Vocht – Pam Tibble were 5^th in the B Final.

GOLD COAST INTERMEDIATE PAIRS

A Final

5.	Elizabeth and Ray Kemp	162.85
12.	Jane Stearns – Di Emms	154.70
17.	Donna Upchurch- Nebojsa Djorovic	146.26
19.	Julia Zhu and Tony Jiang	145.11
20.	Julia and Peter Watson	144.36
22.	Julia Barnett- Peter Heazlewood	141.04

Derek Snelling and Sally-Ann Murphy finished 5th in the B Final where Rhondda Sweetman – Jill Church were 6^th and Sharon Stretton- Pauline Mulligan 7th. Lyn Mould- Erica Tie held on to win the C Final while Jeannette Chatterton and Dawn Simpson finished 3rd in the E Final.

GOLD COAST RESTRICTED PAIRS

A Final

1.	Barry and Jody Whale	181.83
15.	Ann Deaker – Marilyn Copland	149.40

Leah and Helen Andrews finished 2^nd in the B Final.

In the D Final, Jolene Zink and Susan Brown came home first while Jane O’Brien and Chris Hagen won the E Final with Barbara Callan and Mary Akhtar third and Theresa Phillips – David Spencer 4^th.  

Monday Butler Swiss Pairs – Open  (128 pairs)

6.	George Sun – Alice Young	92.12
8.	Michael Pemberton – Graham Wakefield	91.63
9.	Noel Woodhall – Andrew Janisz	91.62
14.	Bruce Batchelor- Greg Buzzard	86.96
16.	Linda Cartner- Jonathan Westoby	85.30
20.	Brad Johnston- Jessica Brake	83.94

Monday Butler Swiss Pairs – 0- 500 mps    (84 pairs)

7.	Bill Humphrey- Paul Carson-Wenmoth	91.17
16.	Kinga Hajmasi – Andrew Michl	82.28

Grand Count.

Here is an exciting board from Round 5 of the Butler Swiss Pairs.

Jonathan Westoby- Linda Cartner bid as above. 5 showed 0 or 3 key cards and 5 asked for the trump queen. Jonathan (West) actually denied holding it but Linda bid the grand anyway! He received a club lead. Jonathan won, drew trumps and played a spade to the ace, noting the fall of South’s 10. He returned to hand and played a second spade. Jonathan had already noted that South had three hearts to North’s one (a little clue) and then saw North give what appeared to be reverse count in spades. Would you believe North?

Jonathan did, finessed and made his grand slam. Lots of imps on that decision!

Everyone starts playing Teams on Tuesday.

For the link to the full results, click here.

Richard Solomon

 

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