Sanya 2014: Saturday October 18 2014

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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

All the Positions: Click Here

For the Rosenblum Teams, the first day (October 18) will be a qualification phase consisting of a Swiss with 8 matches of 7 boards, qualifying approximately 50% of the field for the semi-final A; the rest of the teams will play the semi-final B. Both semi-finals will be a Swiss, of 8 x 7 board matchesplayed on the second day (October 19). The leading 27 teams of the A semi-final and the 5 teams of the B semi-final will go on to play the knock-out phase.

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

All the Positions Click Here

The Women’s and Senior Teams will follow the same principles of the Rosenblum and Mixed, depending on the number of entries: they will play a 2 or 3 day qualification, followed by a knock out phase. Details will be published

in the Daily Bulletin.

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.