Final Day

Final Day Results

The APBF Championships finished today, with our Open Team on VuGraph, fighting for 3rd place. In their final three matches, the team lost to Indonesia (16-28) and won against the leaders, China (29-11) and against China Hong Kong (59-35).  Although they had a good day, the team finished in 4th place, but only 1.6 VP's behind 3rd place and a medal.  The medal winners were China, New Zealand and Singapore.  Huge congratulations to New Zealand and well done and commiserations to our team for their 4th place.

In the Seniors our A team lost to Thailand (24-30) and won against Chinese Taipei A (18-1) and Korea (25-16). Our Seniors B team had a tough last day and performed well, beating China (26-19) and New Zealand (48-15) and having a small loss against Chinese Taipei B (18-20).  The medal winners were China, Indonesia A and Chinese Taipei B who was 22VP's ahead of 4th place.  There was a great tussle for 4th to 7th places, with less than 1VP separating these positions.  China Hong Kong was fourth, New Zealand fifth, Australia A was sixth and Australia B was seventh.  

The Mixed team finished in 6th place, but was 39 VP's behind 3rd place.  Today they lost to Chinese Taipei (18-51) and Indonesia (13-32) but finished with a win against China Hong Kong (35-22).  The medal winners were Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Thailand.

In the Women's, the medal winners were China, Chinese Taipei and Japan.  Our team finished the event with losses to Chinese Taipei and India and a draw against Singapore to finish in 8th place.

Congratulations to all of our teams for their efforts.

Tomorrow each of our national teams play against the New Zealand national teams as the Zone 7 Qualifying event for the World Bridge Teams in China in September this year.  Both countries will qualify a team in each category, so the playoff will be good practice for both countries.

Posted by Sheila Bird on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 22:59