Wroclaw 2016: Monday September 12th

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Sunday: It was upset day in Wroclaw on Sunday as three favoured teams in the Open Series were sent to the sidelines. France, European champions this year, staged a late rally but still fell to New Zealand 167-150. Even more impressive was Spain’s performance against USA in a 182-149 win. The Spanish held the strong American team to 3 IMPs over the final 16 boards of the match. Italy, another highly regarded team, fell to Canada 214-173. In the Women’s Series, the favorites — France, England, USA and China — all moved into the quarterfinal round in comfort. In the Seniors, USA continued to march ahead, winning over China Hong Kong by 172 IMPs. As this issue went to press, China was leading Italy 203-200 in an eight-board playoff in the Mixed Teams.

Monday: At the halfway point of the quarterfinals in the Open,Women’s, Senior and Mixed Teams there are some matches at or near runaway status — notably USA 137-50 over France in the Mixed and Monaco 126-43 over Canada in the Open — but with 48 boards to play, there is plenty of time for trailing teams to make up ground. The closest match — 79-79 — involves Poland, the hometown favorite. They are in a tough battle with Sweden, winners of the Open event in Lille four years ago.Two members of the 2012 team are playing for Sweden inWroclaw: Fredrik Nystrom and Johan Upmark. Poland, winners of Group B in the round robin qualifying, is fielding the same team that won the Bermuda Bowl in Chennai, India, last year. In the Senior series, USA is the heavy favorite to win a second straight championship after dominating the senior field in Chennai last year, but they are locked in a tight battle with a veteran team from Australia. USA is ahead, but by only 10 IMPs. In the same event,Turkey is leading Denmark by just 5 IMPs.

QF Results (3 sets to go)

Pairs World Series Format

Open pairs format. Following the qualifying rounds, the pairs will be split into semi-final A and semi-final B. Semi-final A will consist of 100 pairs, including the drop-ins from the Knock-out, playing 10 sessions of 10 boards in two days. Semi-final B will consist of the rest of the field Information concerning the number of finalists and carry-forward scores will be published later.

Women’s and Seniors pairs Because of the low number of entries, there will not be a semi-final. The drop-in pairs from the Knock-out will join the qualification,which will be carried on two more days. At the end, it is foreseen that a total of 26 pairs will qualify to the final, though that number may vary in case of a low number of dropins. If so, the number will be promptly announced. Carry-forward scores will be announced later.

Mixed pairs After the qualification, the pairs will be split into semi-final A and semi- final B. The number of qualifiers to semi-final A will be usually be 23 or24. However, in case of some of the drop-in pairs do not show up, the number might be increased to get to a total of 52. Further information about the number of finalists and carry-forward scores will be published later.

Pairs results

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