Saturday October 18, 2014
14th Red Bull World Bridge Series: Teams
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Today started the World Teams Championships, played in three categories: Open, Ladies and Seniors.
Open (Rosenblum Teams): [ilink url=»http://registration.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/sanya.14/Reg/ParticipantsTeams.asp?qtournid=1031&qdetails=1&qcountryid=All»]123 teams[/ilink] are participating in this new edition of Open Teams World Championship.
Among them: the Lavazza team. For the first time one of the best Argentinean pairs: Alejandro Bianchedi and Ernesto Muzzio are playing together in this team, also one of the recent winners of the Mixed Teams World Championship : Zia Mahmood, and the World Champions: Agustin Madala, Norberto Bocchi and Georgio Duboin, all led by the legendary Maria Teresa Lavazza.
From USA, among others is participating the Nickell team: Meckstroth-Rodwell, Weinstein-Levin, Nickell-Katz, this team includes the best coach in the world: Eric Kokish.
The Fleisher, besides its usual partnerships, include one of the best Australian players: Ishmael DELMONTE (Australia) who is playing with Brad Moss (USA). The Diamond team incorporated for this occasion a world champion pair from Holland: Brink-Drijver. Cayne as always is participating with a powerful team: Versace-Lauria; Balicki-Zmudzinski and Cayne-Seamon.
The list of the best teams in the world who are participating in 2014 Sanya, is endless. This are the standings after the first day of play (a Swiss Qualifying); the top positions are:
| Final Rankings | ||
| # | Team | VPs |
| 1 |  SOUTH AFRICA |
114.56 |
| 2 |  ZAWADA |
111.80 |
| 3 |  MARK GORDON |
109.50 |
| 4 | MCALLISTER |
108.79 |
| 5 |  NICKELL |
107.94 |
| 6 | KASIMIRS DREA |
107.76 |
| 7 | LAVAZZA |
105.23 |
| 8 | DIAMOND |
103.57 |
| 9 |  CHINA HYX |
103.15 |
| 10 |  JAPAN |
102.97 |
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Ladies: [ilink url=»http://registration.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/sanya.14/Reg/ParticipantsTeams.asp?qtournid=1032&qdetails=1&qcountryid=All»]26 Ladies teams[/ilink] are competing for the Gold. Some of the favorites are: the Moss team, where is playing the recent winner of World Pairs Championship (with Jack Zhao): Kerri Sanborn. The Joel team: Benedicte CRONIER (Francia)-Sylvie WILLARD (Francia); Victoria GROMOVA (Rusia)-Tatiana PONOMAREVA (Rusia); Geeske JOEL (U.S.A.) – Tobi SOKOLOW (U.S.A.).
After the first day, these are the first positions:
| Final Rankings | ||
| # | Team | VPs |
| 1 | MOSS |
117.23 |
| 2 | JOEL |
111.82 |
| 3 | CHINA YELLOW |
105.12 |
| 4 |  NETHERLANDS |
103.92 |
| 5 | CHINA ORANGE |
97.80 |
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Seniors: ilink url=»http://registration.worldbridge.org/repository/tourn/sanya.14/Reg/ParticipantsTeams.asp?qtournid=1033&qdetails=1&qcountryid=All»] 22 teams[/ilink] are playing the Seniors Championship.
| Final Rankings | ||
| # | Team | VPs |
| 1 | XINYUAN SENIO |
104.04 |
| 2 | MILNER |
95.50 |
| 3 |  HK SENIOR FRI |
90.04 |
| 4 |  INDONESIA |
89.96 |
| 5 | MARKOWICZ |
87.60 |
| 6 | HACKETT |
81.73 |
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