Barcelona February 7,8 y 9 2014
Hotel Princesa Sofia, Barcelona
February Friday 7th 2014
On Friday February 7th, in the Hotel Princesa Sofia of Barcelona began the fifth edition of the Barcelona International Open Bridge Pairs Tournament.
A field of 161 pairs were divided in the 81 tables placed in the magnificent hotel’s game lounges to play the first 26 boards. At the end of the first day of play, Michael GROMOELLER – Christian DOEBIG from Germany lead the field with the 65.5%.
Second from Spain: Conchita GROSS – Paco MARIMON with the 63,00% and also from Spain in third place: Jose Ignacio TORRES – Antonio FRANCES.
These are the first 10 positions:
| Rank | % | Pair |
| 1 | 65,5 | Michael GROMOELLER -Christian DOEBIG |
| 2 | 63 | Conchita GROSS -Paco MARIMON |
| 3 | 62,6 | Jose Ignacio TORRES -Antonio FRANCES |
| 4 | 62,4 | Julius SIGURJONSSON -Peter FREDIN |
| 5 | 62,2 | Pedro RODRIGUEZ CANO -Josë Ignacio DE LA PEÑA |
| 6 | 61,9 | Amadeo LLOPART -Juanjo FRUTOS |
| 7 | 61,8 | Ioana PAGU -Marius MORARU |
| 8 | 61,6 | Marta ALMIRALL -Nuria ALMIRALL |
| 9 | 60,8 | Erikas VAINIKONIS -Andrei ARLOWICH |
| 10 | 60,6 | Bernard CABANES -Thibault DELMAS-SIRVEN |
All the Positions: Click Here All the 1st day Boards Click Here
The event Director is: Mr. Luc Soudan.
Our CsbNews.org correspondent in Spain: Angie Bach, already begun interviewing some of the players and has sent us the first pictures we enclosed here.
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