Saturday, June 7, 2014
The CPEL or the Taça San Pablo is the Bridge Teams Championship from San Pablo, Brazil. This tournament, whith the participation of many of the best Brazilian teams, each year begins with a qualifying Round Robin. At the end of it the two best placed teams advance directly to the semifinal and the teams in positions 3-6 face each other to determine the other two semifinalists. The rest of the teams continue playing in the Series 2 and Series 3.
This year the two teams ranked in the top two places were: d’Orsi and Carvalho teams. The four teams that defined the other two semifinalists were: Amaral, Sabbag, Doria and Yamagushi. Finally Amaral defeated Yamagushi and Sabbag defeated Doria. The semifinals were played in 4 sets of 16 boards each, and finally the d’Orsi and Amaral teams advanced to the finals.
d’Orsi: Ernesto d’Orsi- Mauricio Figueiredo – Miguel Villas Boas – Guillerme Junqueira – Joao Paulo Campos – Renato Ilibio Fernandes
Carvalho: Leao Carvalho – Joao Alberto Dib – Marcos Thoma – Stefano Tommasini – Pablo Ravenna
Amaral: Marcelo Amaral- Sergio Aranha – Jose Nader – Sergio Rodrigues – Luiz Fernando Amaral – Federico Alfredo Kladt
Sabbag: Ricardo Sabbag – Hamilton Kobe – Jose Eduardo Campos Filho – Ralf Chalom – Jacques Hazam – Gabriele Tusa
Qualifying RR results:
Rank Team Score Name Roster
1 1 248,00 D'ORSI ERNESTO D - MAURICIO F - MIGUEL V B - GUILHERME J - JOÃO PAULO C - RENATO I F
2 3 225,61 CARVALHO LEAO C - JOAO ALBERTO D - MARCOS T - STEFANO T - PABLO R
3 2 223,74 AMARAL MARCELO A - SERGIO A - JOSE N - SERGIO R - LUIZ FERNANDO E A - FEDERICO ALFREDO K K
4 6 193,12 SABBAG RICARDO S - HAMILTON K - JOSE EDUARDO C F - RALF C - JACQUES H - GABRIELE T
5 9 189,09 DORIA LUCIA D - ARY N - LIS REGINA A F - FABIO N - HELOISA N - IRIS V
6 7 171,39 YAMAGUSHI JORGE Y - LAURITA M - ANTONIO ARMANDO M - FELIPE M - GABRIELA M
7 12 171,03 NICOLETTI JOÃO MAURO N - ROBERTO S - GERMANA D - MARILU A - MARCOS EUGENIO F - MARCELO R
8 4 165,33 SAMPAIO FABIO B S - MARINA G - MARINA A - MAURO M
9 10 162,34 TAJTELBAUM LIA T - ALTA ROSA G - MARIA CECILIA M - MARIA TERESA F - LUCILIA P - VERA G
10 5 132,55 MANDELOT PEDRO M - AGOTA M - CLAUDIO S - RENATO B - SANDRO B - BRUNO F
11 11 117,65 GOMES IRENE G - LIA C - JULIANA C - SIMONE T
12 8 107,23 LEITAO MARCOS L - MONA C - PAULO A S - LILI M - SONIA L
13 14 72,88 ROSSI JEAN CLAUDE R - GABRIELA L - ALICE L - MARIE NOELLE F - ENIKO T - SUSANNE L
14 16 70,03 GIANNECCHINI ANDRÉ G - ALESSANDRO P - ERICK O - TAIS B - GABRIEL P - BRUNNO R
15 13 68,28 LAFRATTA JAIR JOSE L - SANTA L - EDGARD K - CIRO N - JAN S - CLAYTON P
16 15 65,12 PASMANTER BERTA P - JENNIFER G - ROSANI R - ANNA MARIA F - LENA N - SUSANA P