Worlds start with the Mixed Pairs

The World Championships have started with the opening event the Mixed Pairs.  Yesterday was the first two of three qualifying sessions.  My guess is that this year there will be a record breaking entry.  There were 445 pairs from 49 countries entered in the first event the Mixed Pairs.  Don’t miss the article in   .  It includes this photo.  The player holding the cards in the foreground is Roberta Melman.  Her smiling partner is Rhoda Schaffer.  The front cover of Saturday Bulletin has greetings from President Obama.  Among other things he mentions that he has fond memories of his grandparents enjoying the game.  Mr. President I am sure you would enjoy it too!

CBS Philly has this headline

Philadelphia Hosts World Bridge Series Championships

The results are posted and the leaders after two sessions are:

John and Laurie Kranyak  (his mom) with a great cumulated score of 66.2%.  John was on the USA Junior team which won the 11th WORLD YOUTH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Bangkok 2006.

Second is Sandra Rimstedt, Sweden (Sweden) Shane Blanchard (USA) with 61.77%.  I noticed my friends Arnie and Wendy Krause of Canada had a good start with 56.25%, as did Gloria and Les Bart (USA), 56.37%

Sandra

There are lots of interesting hand in the Sunday Bulletin with a good size staff covering the event.  The first round of the final of the Mixed Pairs and the Mixed Pairs Plate (Consolation) start Sunday evening.