Australia has won the seniors teams in the 2013 APBF championships in Hong Kong.

Thursday 13 June With only two matches to play in the open and women’s neither Australian team can win.  The open team won all three matches today and have moved up to sixth place; they may be able to improve further.  The women lost two matches and are fifth but have hopes of finishing third.  The seniors’ team put their run of losses behind them with two large wins.  They are again at the front but with three tough matches […]

Wednesday 12 June A fair day only for the Australian teams.  The open team played the top three teams.  Japan won comfortably in the end after being behind with four boards to go as their captain asserted his presence at the table.  After a small loss to China Taipei the team playing well to defeat China by 9 IMPs.  After two tough days they now play against the five teams that finished below them in the first round robin so […]

Tuesday 11 June Today was not so encouraging for the Australian teams: the open team’s run of losses was finally broken in the last match but they now lie eighth.  The women slipped to fifth, despite two wins and a bye, and the Lusk team in the seniors dropped to ninth.  The stars remain the seniors team, which won all three matches and has increased their lead over Indonesia.  They are now starting to play the top half of the […]

Monday 10 June After a few days of warming up the Chinese open team put the pedal to the floor yesterday.  Their three wins left them first at the end of the first round robin.  The first of their opponents was Australia.  Things were looking good for us after the first few boards when the Chinese got overboard at the five level in search of slam and missed a game: do you think responder can pass after the uncontested auction […]