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Gold Coast Report 23rd February

OPEN TEAMS

Four teams played the Round of Four while the top 2 including McAllister (John McAllister, Sartaj Hans, Matt Brown, Michael Whibley) had byes through to the semi-final. Ware (Michael Ware, GeO Tislevoll, Hugh McGann, Matthew Thomson, Justin Mill, Tony Nunn) won their 20 board match 63-27 to advance to the semi-finals.

In the 40 board semi-finals, Ware won 79-50 to reach the final while McAllister staged a comeback after losing the first two stanzas but still ended up losing 70-90. In the final, Ware will play James Coutts (ex Dunedin), Shane Harrison, Ellena Moskovsky, Nabil Edgton, Andy Hung and Liam Milne (ex Wellington).

KIWI SUCCESS IN THE RESTRICTED TEAMS

Bannister ( Ian Bannister, Fran Martin, Jane O’Brien, Chris Hagen) won a thrilling 56 board final 123-115 after trailing by 12 imps with 10 boards to play. They won the last 14 boards by 20 imps to sneak past their opponents.

One key board was board 23 of the last stanza, the penultimate board:

Board 23
South Deals
Both Vul
9 6 3
A K 10 9 7
K
J 9 7 6
A Q J
Q J 8 3 2
9 3
Q 10 5
 
N
W   E
S
 
K 4
A J 10 8 7 6 2
K 8 4 2
 
10 8 7 5 2
6 5 4
Q 5 4
A 3

 

With their opponents in the safety of 3Diamond-small making 2 overtricks, Bannister’s East-West pair tried the more ambitious 3NT by West. To beat this contract, North must lead Heart-smallT. Declarer must play a diamond giving the defence 3 hearts, a diamond and Club-smallA. However, after a passive spade lead, West emerged with 11 tricks and 11 priceless imps.

HEARTBREAK FOR HAJMASI IN INTERMEDIATE TEAMS FINAL

After 42 of the 56 boards, the team of Kinga Hajmasi, Andrew Michl, Tony Jiang and Julia Zhu led by 27 imps with just 14 boards to play. Alas, they lost that last set by 30 imps to lose the match 90-93. The above board again proved critical because while their opponents made an overtrick in 3NT on a club lead, Hajmasi’s East-West pair overbid and failed by two tricks in 6Diamond-small, thereby losing 13 imps at just the wrong time. So close.

IVY DAHLER BUTLER SWISS PAIRS

The leading Kiwis after 7 out of 10 rounds are:

OPEN (114 tables)

North-South

2

Yuzhong Chen- William Liu

100.44

14

Brian Cleaver – Steve Boughey

 85.20

15

Andrew Janisz- Patrick Bugler

 85.18

16

Kate Davies – John Patterson

 85.16

 

East - West

1

Anne Somerville – Geoff Eyles

105.13

 

5

June Lei- Jeter Liu

 93.79

 

6

Michael Pemberton – Chris Ackerley

 92.78

 

7

Peter and Julia Watson

 90.76

 

9

Alan Geare – Deborah Cooper

 89.94

 

10

Gina Hsu – Brian Craig

 89.26

 

15

Herman Yuan – Andrew Liu

 86.78

 

17

Paul Carson – Bill Humphrey

 85.90

 

20

Pamela Nisbet – Gray McMullin

 84.47

 

 

Intermediate (76 pairs)

  1. Lyn Mould – Erica Tie                       84.18

Restricted  (86 pairs)

1

Annette Hagan – Janice Willoughby

104.75

3

Nicky Bowers – Joy Watkinson

 97.36

4

Brad Tattersfield – Jan Borren

 95.62

5

Jennie Borren – Margaret Robbie

 93.60

13

Marsha Woodbury – Virginia Warren

 85.71

 

SERES – MCMAHON MATCHPOINT SWISS PAIRS (48 pairs – 6 round) final scores

2

Graham Wakefield – Roger Thomas

90.70

11

Julian Foster – Jenna Gibbons

71.25

16

Jane Stearns – Di Emms

66.31

18

Peter Farley- Alice Stevenson

64.66

19

Anne Barrowclough – Anisia Shami

63.30

20

Anna Kalma – Tim Rigter

63.14

 

Click here for the full results. The final report will be on Sunday.

Richard Solomon

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