Congratulations to Gareth Jones & Lee Collier eventual winners of the 2023 Vince Bevan Pairs trophy, with Tim Dean & Peter Milewski closely following in 2nd place.  Tim & Peter had been in the lead until the last round....hard luck guys!

Many thanks to Dave Nicklin for organising and directing an enjoyable day's bridge.

Full results below

Congratulations to Kevin Maddox and Tony Haworth this year's winners, shown above with WWBA President, Steve Jarvis.  Kevin & Tony made a strong start, and despite a valiant effort from Tony Disley & Simon Richards, who shared the lead going into the last round, held on to win by 9 VPs.  In 2nd place were Chris & Angela Overton followed by Tony Cookson & Wayne Jenkins in 3rd, Tony Disley & Simon Richards 4th.

It is great to see that F2F competition numbers are improving at last - with almost twice as many pairs today compared with this event last year, so rapidly heading for pre-Covid levels.  Keep up the good work! 

Many thanks to our ATO Dave Nicklin for organising and directing this highly popular event.

Full results below.

For the first time since 2019 we were able to hold our AGM and John Isaac GP Pairs competition face to face. Ably directed by Sarah Amos, nineteen pairs pairs battled it out with Emer & Tony finishing just ahead of Chris & Angela Overton in 2nd place, with Simon Richards & Tony Disley hot on their heels in 3rd.  it was good to see that numbers for the John Isaac were almost back to pre-Covid levels, though sadly we had to cancel the Ann Dolan Novice event through lack of support. 

Come on Novices, let's see if we can get the Ann Dolan back up and running next year!

Full results below:             Congratulations to the winners!

Full Results below.

Full results below             Congratulations to the winners!

This year, for the first time, the Vince Bevan Pairs event was open to all WBU members, rather than being restricted to those from the Western Area, Congratulations to the winners - Simon Gottschalk & Glyn Meredith from East Wales (pictured above).  The best from the West were Steve Jarvis & Peter Milewski in 2nd place who were closely followed by Vida Halford & Glyn Williams and Steve Webb & Martin David in joint 3rd.  Many thanks to Sarah for her efficient directing, making it a most enjoyable event for all.

Full results below.

Congratulations to Steve Jarvis & Mike Baker, winners of this year's WWBA green-pointed Swiss Pairs. Steve & Mike made their way rapidly to table 1 and although Jennifer Wardell & Nalini Dewan in 2nd place and Vida Halford & Glyn Williams in 3rd tried valiantly to catch them up, it was to no avail! 

Today's event was directed calmly and efficiently (as ever) by the lovely Sarah Amos (shown above with Steve & Mike)

Full results below

Thanks to the combined efforts of our ATO, Dave Nicklin, and EWBA ATO, Helen Houston, the first major f2f WBU event for over 2 years was held today (26^th June) at Tumble.  East Wales took the first 2 places (“Penarth +2” followed by Cardiff), with the Best from the West being Haverforwest in 3^rd.  Congratulations to the winning team (Mike Tedd & John Salisbury, Simon Brindle & Adrian Tricky, Jennifer Wardell & Mrunalini Dewan, Richard Stevenson & Rosemary Allen)

Full results here. 

The event (superbly directed by Sarah Amos) was much enjoyed by everyone.

 

Full results below.                           Well done everyone!    

This year’s winners of the Ann Dolan Cup for Novices were Tony & Kath Brown.

Congratulations!!

The Laidlaw Murray Cup goes to the highest scoring WWBA team: Mike Baker & Peter Milewski, Steve Jarvis & Nick Forrest, who were beaten into 2nd place by the non-WWBA team of Gilly Clench & David Birt, Gary Jones & Paul Lamford.

Full Results below.       Congratulations to the winners!

CONGRATULATIONS to Emer Disley and Tony Haworth, winners of the Area Mixed Pairs competition!

They were closely followed by Irene Delahunty & Mike Baker in 2nd place, with last year's winners - Linda Pinnock & Steve Burgoyne hot on their heels in 3rd.

Full results below.                      Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Peter Milewski who has won the Vince Bevan Area Pairs for the 3rd consecutive year, this time with Mike Baker

Peter and Mike had a clear lead over Vida Halford & Glyn Williams in 2nd place, who were closely followed by Julie Milewski & Irene Delahunty In 3rd

Apologies for the delay in posting the results which are now shown in full below. 

Congratulations to Stephanie Rohan & Paul Lamford, winners of the WWBA 4th annual GP SWISS PAIRS competition held 19th September 2021. They were followed by Tony Haworth & Mike Best, than Chris Rochelle & Simon Gottschalk.

 Full results below.                   Well done everyone.

Congratulations to Steve Jarvis and Mike Baker who gained second spot in the WBU Open Pairs, a 57 board marathon played via BBO on Sunday 14th March.

Congratulations too for fine competitive performances from all the other West Wales players who distinguished themselves including Tony Disley & Adrian Thomas, Kevin Maddox & Tony Haworth, Simon Richards & Simon Gottschalke... full results and hands can be found on the WBU scores website.

Two players from our region distinguished themselves by some fine play when selected as part of the national Welsh team for this prestigeous event played from 16-18 April.  Lee Collier and Margaret Lane scored +.285 IMPs on the cross-imp comparison of all players which put them 9th out of the international field of 18 pairs.  Well done ladies, and let's hope it bodes well for leading the West Wales charge for the Spickett Bowl in June!

Congratulations to Anthony Stevens and Peter Milewski, pictured here with WWBA Chair Gareth Jones, winners of the 2020 online Vince Bevan Cup.  See Resuls panel for full details of the event scores.

Congratulations to Area Mixed Pairs Champions Keith Richards and Eleanor Price

Congratulations to the successful players in the Third Annual Green Pointed Swiss Pairs, played on Stepbridge on Saturday 31st October 2020.  In a close finish the winners were Vida Halford and Glyn Williams.  Second placed were Anthony Stevens and Keith Davison.  Third placed were Steve Jarvis and Nick Forrest.  Full results are found by clicking on the relevant heading in the Results column below.

Thanks are offered to Tony Haworth for his fuss-free TD service throughout the day.

Click here to download the Green Points awards list.

Swansea Glas: Keith Richards, Jennifer Wardell, Denys Maddock, Colin Thomas, Lavinia Thomas, Roger Penton, Elanor Price & Ian Grove.

For individual x-imps please click

Congratuations to Glan James and Frances Williams who won the Area Qualifier 2016

Congrats to the Haverfordwest Team of Eight,       

John and Jill O’Sullivan,

Mike Baker and Steve Jarvis,  

 Eric Hartland and Ian Haston.

And Lee Collier & Carmel Wiseman, 

who came joint first in the  National Finals on June 21^st