End of the First Day
THE END OF THE FIRST DAY
Match 1
Australia vs China 39 20 which converts to 15.06 4.96
Current position 8th
North – South Jamie Thompson playing with Matt Smith
East – West Renee Cooper playing with Francesca McGrath
Excepting a no cost slam as reported earlier, both pairs gave nothing of any substance away and bid, played and defended well.
The difference in scores was basically attributed to two boards -
The Chinese NS mis-defended a vulnerable game which Francesca gave them a little rope and Renee Cooper bid a practical 3NT bid missed by the opposition.
Match 2
Australia vs Singapore 10 30 which converts to 4.74 15.26
Current position 12th
North – South Renee Cooper playing with Francesca McGrath
East – West Tomer Libman playing with Andrew Spooner
As in the first match, the result was decided on two boards but this time it went against the Australians.
Tomer Libman and Andrew Spooner were doubled in a vulnerable 3♥ [a little frisky but not totally unreasonable] (and it was a little unfortunate that the opponents had the mechanism and/or good fortune to create this penalty double situation).
Renee Cooper and Francesca McGrath were in a normal 4♠ contract were there is a two way guess for the Q1d which they got wrong and Singapore did not [see the end of the article for this hand]
A loss but the bridge gods were not favouring us.
Match 3
Australia vs USA2 27 19 which converts to 12.44 7.56
Current position 12th
North – South Tomer Libman playing with Andrew Spooner
East – West Jamie Thompson playing with Matt Smith
Tomer Libman and Andrew Spooner did well to bid and make a 6♦ contract for 10 imps where there were a few play options to consider.
Both pairs got a ‘5-level’ decision correct for 7 imps. A lot of imps can swing on these high-level decisions in events.
The only major loss is when the opponents found the winning lead against a game contract (that was not clear cut but worked).
Match 4
Australia vs Poland 35 14 which converts to 15.46 4.54
Current position 8th
North – South Renee Cooper playing with Francesca McGrath
East – West Jamie Thompson playing with Matt Smith
17 imps came Australia’s way when Jamie and Matt bid to a regulation 6♣ (in one match, this board saw 7♣ bid at both tables for a flat board off an ace). The Polish West insisted in playing in his good ♥ suit even with a good ♣ fit.
Renee and Francesca bid a very thin 4♥ where declarer must pick up the doubleton Q♥ offside to make with 5 outstanding trumps for 10 imps.
The rest of the match was relatively flat.
End of Day Summary
Australia is in 8th position having played no team that is currently lower than 16th in the field of 22 (ie they haven’t played any of the lower ranked teams to achieve this position).
Tomorrow they play
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Match 1 |
Chile |
Currently 18th |
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Match 2 |
Indonesia |
Currently 11th |
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Match 3 |
USA1 |
Currently 1st |
One of the favourites |
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This was board number 7 The dealer was South N/S vul and E/W vul
Australia vs Singapore
Or some bidding:
South’s 1NT was alerted as 14 – 16.
South started with 3 top ♣s, and North ruffed the 3rd round to switch to the 4♥s. You draw trumps, ruff a ♥ (South playing 8 T Q) how do you play the ♦s?
South has shown up with AKQ of ♣s, Q of ♥s and the J♠. He should have the Q ♦s but no.
South did well to conceal the ♥ holding so bad luck.
Posted by Mike and Chris on Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 23:45