Wimbledon Bridge Club is run by a volunteer Committee which is elected by the members:
Click here for the current committee

General enquiries:
  Email: manager@wimbledonbridgeclub.co.uk
  Clubhouse: 020 8947 0147 during opening hours
  Urgent matters only outside opening hours:
  Janet: 07890 024 172
 We are all volunteers, so please be patient if we cannot reply straight away.

Learning Bridge enquiries:
  Email: teaching@wimbledonbridgeclub.co.uk

Regular updates are sent by email to all members. If you don’t receive these updates, please check we have your correct email address on the membership database (pianola)

Wimbledon Bridge Club, 56a Worple Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EY

Please see the playing calendar for opening hours.  The club is normally open 45 minutes before the start of play.

It was a year in the planning and suddenly it's all over but what a week that was!  40 commemorative medals, 14 sessions, 116 bottles of wine and prosecco, 202 tables, and about 700 pieces of cake!  We hope you enjoyed the week and tried something new!

Medal Winners were:

Blue Pointed Swiss Pairs 1^st Eduard Malhasyan and Mobin Ramen, 2^nd Joseph and Woody Cohen, 3^rd Debbie Sandford and Jon Cooke, non-experts Penny Clarke and Dawn Bordbar
Chicago Bridge: 1^st Peter Blake and Jane Chivers with 1,580, 2^nd Peter and Jan Gibbs with 1.530 and 3^rd Keith Thomas and Christine Galustian with 1,140
Speedball: N/S John Jeffrey and Ali Baig, E/W Rachel and Jeremy Sumeray
Ploughman’s: N/S David Newman and Ivor Snowden, E/W Ann Lindsay and Sandra Grossman
Pick and Mix Teams: Pat Brown and John Smith, John Sheppard and John Michael Coyle
Introduction to Duplicate: N/S Maurice Woolf and Pankaj Amin, E/W Will Porter and Jane Moss
Mini Swiss Pairs: 1^st Vaughan Bishop and Harriet Chappell, 2^nd Beverley Radcliffe and Frank Hazewindus, 3^rd Wendy Young and Charles Dixon
40^th Anniversary Supper: N/S Robert Griffiths and Nina Cohen, E/W Judi Lawson and Dan O’Farrell

Thank you to everyone who made this week of special events possible:

The directors of our special events: Richard Banbury, Harriet Chappell, Vaughan Bishop, Calum Stewart and Shirley Pritchard.
The catering team: Ellen Choe, Anita and Emily.
Julia Ellis for the Newsletter and photo competition.  Answers are A: Lis Bingham, B: Hilary Stewart, C: Ian Tree, D: Harriet Chappell, E: Jane Carpenter, F: Calum Stewart, G: Terry Hewett.  There was no overall winner so the champagne will be carried forward to a future event!
Andrew Thomas for designing our new logo, event posters, adverts and leaflets.
Ann Lindsay, Sheena Osborn, Michelle Cox, June Middleton, Pat Brown, Mark Reece for help with planning, catering and set up.
Ruby Reynolds, member number one, who came to most of the events and has given the club a beautiful 40^th Anniversary rose for the garden to mark the occasion.

And all our hosts, people who contributed photos, and you, the members, without whom the club would not be the same!

Janet and Hilary

April 2026

Click here for the photo album  If you have any photos of the events you would like to share, please do send them in to be added to the album.

We are delighted to see that the winners of the Surrey County Pairs Cup are WBC members Conor Murphy and Imogen Davies.  The top 14 pairs from the 26 board qualifier play for the Cup and the remaining pairs play for the plate.  It was a close competition, with Conor and Imogen winning on a split tie.

Annette's Memorial Mass will be on Friday 24th April at 12noon at the Sacred Heart Church, Edge Hill, Wimbledon, SW19 4LU.

Following the mass, there will be refreshments in the church lounge.

Congratulations to Tania Tyatina and Maria Nicholson, who won the Improvers Competition for the Hilary Stewart Cup.  It was a close competition, with the top 4 pairs all scoring over 60%.

Congratulations to the WBC members below, who have received a Master Point Rank promotion in January, especially Nallathamby, Judith and Liz, who have achieved their first Master Point ranking.

Congratulations to Alistair Brown, the winner of the Good Friday Individual Championship for the Hetty Van Os trophy. Thank you to Harriet for organising and directing and to Ellen and team for lunch and Easter treats.

This newsletter has been produced in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Wimbledon Bridge Club as a members' club.  Thanks to Julia Ellis, newsletter editor, and all the contributors.  There is a competition in the newsletter, with the winner receiving a bottle of champagne. There will be a few printed copies at the club.  We hope you enjoy reading about the origins of your club.

40th Newsletter March 2026.pdf

Time and Leisure published an article about the anniversary, which you can read here:

https://timeandleisure.co.uk/local-news/wimbledon-bridge-club-turns-40/

Good Friday - open for the Individual only at 11am. No regular morning or afternoon session Saturday 4th April - MiniBridge card play 11am, Duplicate 2pm, Supervised Play 2pm Sunday 5th April - closed Monday 6th April - Supervised Play 1:30pm.

The Novice Champions 2026 are Sarah Field and Sarah Putt, shown here with the Gwyneth Sather Cup. Second were John Chang and Carmel Williams and third were Nawshrat Dhalla and Gwyneth Davies. Congratulations to all who played, including some of our new beginners, and many partnerships playing in a duplicate event for the first time.

Please book now for your continuation course.  Advanced course available.  New beginners courses will start in September

Congratulations to the WBC members below, who have received a Master Point Rank promotion in January, especially Liza, who has achieved her first Master Point ranking.

For many years, approaches have been made to Merton Council to ask for a Zebra Crossing on Worple Road near the club.  Last year, WBC member Julie Grainger met with the Councillor and started a petition to install a crossing.  As you will have seen, the Council listened and in February, the new crossing was installed.  Thanks to Julie for taking the initiative. Members using the crossing L to R Julie G, Dawn B, Rob G and Lizzie V

In the Championship held on Sunday 8th March, the winners of the Men's Pairs were Graham Cunningham and Kevin Robins.  The Ladies Pairs Champions are Janet Cahm and Hilary Stewart.

February 2026