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New Zealand at the APBF.

Saturday saw the start of the Asia Pacific Bridge Championships in Hefei, China, in which New Zealand is competing in the Open, Ladies, Mixed and Senior competitions. Australia are also playing in all 4 events.

All matches are 14 boards long with 13 countries participating in the Open event, 9 in the Ladies,10 in the Mixed and 8 in the Seniors. The Open Teams are playing a double round-robin and the other categories are playing Triple round- robins.

After 2 days and 7 rounds (6 in the Seniors), the Kiwis are as follows:

Open 5^th on 80.51 vps with Australia leading on 95.17vps . The Open Team have had 4 wins, a small, a medium and one large loss. One of the wins was 26-19 imps over China.

Ladies 6^thon 66.23vps with China well ahead on 100.38. New Zealand have a 3-3 win/loss ratio and a bye. They are yet to play China.

Mixed 4^th on 73.7 vps, with China leading on 107.74. New Zealand started with 3 losses including to China but then had 3 good wins in their next 4 matches to finish well in the mix.

Seniors 2^nd on 74.75 vps. They started with a bad loss to Chinese Taipei but have won their next five matches to finish Day 2 just 0.81 vps behind Indonesia.

 
Kiwis in China

The Open Team started with a small win against Hong Kong China but then had a huge victory over India, 64-15 recording 6 double-figure swings. This was the first:

 

 The auction was very controlled with 3 being forcing. Lysandra reasoned that most of her partner’s high card points would be in the minor suits. With her own key void, she jumped to slam and was rewarded with a very satisfactory dummy and a kind enough trump break.

Meanwhile, Ashley Bach and Nick Jacob made it harder for their opponents.

Ashley’s jump to game gave his opponents very little room to move. South might have wondered over 4 but passed. Only 3 out of 12 pairs in the Open event bid the slam.

 

There was no invitation here after Tim rebid his spades. Game required a friendly spade lay-out (there was), A with East (it was) and a successful guess in one of the minors. 10 lead enabled Tim to come to 10 tricks while an invitational Indian auction in the other room finished in 3. Only four Open pairs bid and made game. 

More from the APBF tomorrow. Matches are on BBO from 1.00pm New Zealand time. New Zealand's Open Team is playing Australia, the current leaders at 1pm today Monday. 

Richard Solomon

Link to APBF website is:

https://www.ccba.org.cn/Tour/TourIndex.aspx?tourid=32327

 

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