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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:

 

With their opponents in the safety of 3 making 2 overtricks, Bannister’s East-West pair tried the more ambitious 3NT by West. To beat this contract, North must lead T. Declarer must play a diamond giving the defence 3 hearts, a diamond and A. 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 6, 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)

14. 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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