The Midlands cross-county pairs event was played at Ross-on-Wye for the Edgar Foster Cup, and it was won by Alastair Catchpole & Paul Denning. Our other entrants came 6th of the 20 pairs competing.
At the Cheltenham Congress in August, the best local performances came from Alastair Catchpole & Patrick Shields who came 4th in the Swiss Pairs and Ben Ritacca who was part of the winning team in the Swiss Teams; Lindsay Stewart came seventh in the Pairs and fifth in the Teams; the 9-High Pairs was won by Phillipa Gregory & Lorraine Shepherd.
After five of the 2024 One Day Green Point events, in the overall ranking, Jackie Davies is lying 5th with 184 points, and Ashok & Arun are equal 111th with 58 points; there are 344 people in the ranking list.
To Lesley Harrison, Ashok Kwatra, Paul Lilley & Arun Nanda on coming second in the Swiss Teams at the Glos-Here Green Point weekend in Ross-on-Wye - after being in the lead with one match to go!
To Tony Hill & Alan Wearmouth on winning the Swiss Pairs at the Glos-Here Green Point weekend in Ross-on-Wye.
To Ashok Kwatra & Arun Nanda who came 3rd out of 52 in the July 13th Online Green Point Swiss Pairs.
To Richard Chamberlain & Patrick Shields who, as part of the English Seniors team in the recent European Championships, earned a place for the team in next year's World Championship (by being 7th of 20 teams).
To Andrew Bull & James Hastie for winning the AGM Pairs on 19th May 2024; winners on handicap were Jan Bailey & Patrick Shields.
To the Stroud Cafe Bridge Team (Alison, Franceska, Michele) for such a successful event on 21st April, which raised £1000 for the Brimscombe-based Stroud Grace Network. A total of 32 pairs played, across four cafes.
The team of Richard Butland & Rob Stevens, Richard Chamberlain & Paul Denning have won all three of their matches to become the County KO Champions for 2024.
At the Devon County Congress the Swiss Pairs was won by Tony Hill & Alan Wearmouth (a field of 44 pairs). In the Swiss Teams, Paul Denning was in the team which came first out of 20 teams.
In the National Mixed Pairs (Portland Pairs), Ro Kaye & Arun Nanda came 18th in a filed of 102 pairs - well done.
Winners of the Newent Bowl (16 teams, all went well) : Alastair Catchpole & Tony Hill, Allan & Judy Sanis and the runners-up were Ken Haines & Sue Wickenden, Steve Lawrence & Anne Summers.
Winners of the Green Point Swiss Pairs at Bath (hosted by Wiltshire) - first of 70 pairs finishing with three 19-1 wins - Alastair Catchpole & Jack Armorgie.
Winners of the COTSWOLD CUP, by a whisker after playing the runners up in the last round, were Pam Pearce & Susan Sharp. They were followed by Ben Ritacca & Peter Waggett.
At the end of the year, the top Master Points collector in the County is Jackie Davies (who also leads nationally) followed by Patrick Shields; in second place behind Jackie on collecting Black Points is Derek Boreham, second behind Jackie on Blue Points is (equal) Frank Harsent & Trevor Howard, and on Green Points Garry Watson leads from Paul Denning.
After the November One Day Green Point event (this runs through March 2024), Jackie Davies has overtaken Arun Nanda to be the top County player in this series; Alan Wearmouth provides the County's third position.
To Alastair Catchpole whose team came equal fourth in the Swiss Teams at the EBU's year End Congress in London.
To Alan Wearmouth who, playing with Martyn from Cumbria, came second out of 88 pairs in the One Day Green Point Swiss Pairs on 25th November.
To the County Tollemache team who have qualified Gloucestershire for the final in February 2024. Well done to Butland & Stevens & Cornell, Chamberlain & Watson, Denning & McIntosh, Davis & Wearmouth, Ritacca & Waggett.
To Patrick Shields who playing with David Kendrick came 3rd of 246 in the Open Pairs at the Madeira Bridge Festival.
To Patrick Shields & Garry Watson, half of the team which won the EBU's most recent One Day GP event.
To Alastair Catchpole and Jack Armorgie who won the Swiss Pairs competition at the West of England Congress. They succeeded in a field of 84 pairs which included a number of well known international players. Well done!
Ian Sidgwick & Paul Spencer came 2nd in the morning session and 1st in the afternoon session at the Cumbria/EBU Jack-High pairs event on Sunday 3rd September. A fantastic performance - well done!
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