2013 Monaco Cavendish: The Pairs Auction

Zia Mahmood dirige la subasta bajo la supervision de G. Rona
Zia Mahmood conducting the auction

Just finished the auction before the Cavendish Invitational Pairs – for the sponsor, kibitzers or fans – everybody could bet for a pair, buying the rights to its prize. The money collected during the auction will be distributed between the owners of the top ranked pairs at the end of the tournament.

This year for the first time the Ladies Cavendish Invitational Pairs is played, and the ladies pairs entered the auction with a minimum value of € 2,000 while the pairs of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs had a minimum value of € 5,000.

The total raised from the auction was 878,000 Euros. The best price was paid for Fantoni-Nunes: 57.000 €, and the best price among the ladies went to d’Ovidio – Eythorsdottir: 7.000 €.

These were all the values paid:

Cavendish Invitational Pairs
 
Ladies Cavendish Invitational Pairs
Fantoni – Nunes 57000
Helgemo – Helness 52000
Smirnov – Piekarek 47000
Levin – Weinstein 47000
Grue – Moss 34000
Buras – Narkiewicz 31000
Kalita – Novi Sad 27000
April – Bee 27000
Mahmood – Jansma 25000
Fredin – Fallenius  24000
Gromov-Dubinin 21000
Hanlon – McGann 21000
Gawel – Jagniewski 18000
Bessis – Bessis 18000
Duboin – Ferraro 16000
Nanev – Guneva 14000
Welland – Auken 14000
Sadek – El Ahmady 12000
Sandqvist – Gold 12000
Hackett – Hackett 10000
Bilde – Bilde 10000
Chmurska – Tuczyński 10000
Rombaut – Lorenzini 10000
Upmark – Nystrom 10000
Dumped the – Elinescu 10000
Cronier – de Tessieres 9000
Hoftaniska – Charlsen 9000
Gladysh – Krasnosselsky 8000
Padon – Rosenthal 8000
Bakkeren – Bakkeren 8000
Multon – Zimmerman 8000
Martens – Filipowicz 7000
Schaltz – Blakset 7000
Stewart – Woolsey 7000
Di Franco – Zanasi 6000
Gaviard J. – Seguineau 6000
Jassem – Mazurkiewicz 6000
De Botton – Malinowski 5500
Ventin – Wrange 5500
Andersson – Gustawsson 5000
Eidi – Vroustis 5000
Gaviard D – Solari 5000
Lasocki – Wielemans 5000
Palau – de Mendez 5000
Piedra – Lantaron 5000
Svendsen – Tondel 5000
Thomassen – Karlberg 5000
Thuillez – Libbrecht 5000
Tokay – Gur 5000
Vainikonis E. – Arlovich 5000
Vainikonis V. – Olanski 5000
Vandervorst – Engel 5000
Austberg – Berg 5000
Adad – Ringuet 5000
Berg – Simonssen 5000
Bertens – Roman 5000
Brogeland – Gillis 5000
Kamras – Michielsen 5000
Pilon – Toffier 5000
    
d’Ovidio – Eythorsdottir  7.000
Willard – Cronier 7.000
Neve – Smederevac 4.000
Bałdysz – Sarniak 4.000
Dufrat – Zmuda  3.500
Amirall – Almirall  3.000
Goldberg – Moss  3.000
Bessis – Puillet  3.000
Helness – Popova 3.000
Frey – Hugh  2.500
Iacapraro – Garateguy  2.000
Langeland – Blagestad  2.000
Harding – Fuglestad  2.000
David – Figueira  2.000
Campagnano – Arrigonni  2.000
Piafsky – Rimstedt 2.000

 

 

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