Congratulations to Anna Kalma and Richard Solomon who won the Matamata 5A Swiss Pairs on Saturday timing their climb to the top of the ladder to perfection!

The competition was sponsored by Williams jewellery, so the prizes were presented by Gary and Joy Williams.

Nice to see not only 12 tables of junior players but four tables of novice players compete in Cambridge on Saturday afternoon.  Congratulations to our local winners, Peter and Robyn, who scored an admirable 61% and coming away with a clear win.  It can be daunting playing your first tournament so well done to everyone, simply by being brave enough to take part. 

PS My apologies. I wrote this at the same time as the other article but somehow failed to publish it….

Huge congratulations to Anna Singlewood and Paul Carpenter who came third in the Cambridge junior tournament scoring a very solid average of 60% over the two sessions.

Clear winners were Jess Bradley and Dennis van Maanen from Rotorua who scored a hard to beat 74% in the morning and 61% in the afternoon. 

Second were Annette Downey and Ainu Su from Hamilton, who just pipped Anna and Paul.

Well done to Anne Tankard and Rob Graham who came 4th overall scoring a commendable 58% both rounds showing consistency is key to a good result!

It was a fun day in Rotorua made by Ian and Pam Moore along with Ian and Lynette Bond coming third overall after four wins from the six 12 board matches.  Well done them securing big wins, unlike the Solomon team that also managed four wins but finished 7th place.  

What an amazing result for Els, who was unable to play bridge last year, to come away with the 2026 junior championship! I am sure she is very grateful to her respective partners who helped get this result.  Go Els!

The results were close….very close indeed and the runner up was Alan Lowe.  Very well done to him who also claimed silver last year.

In third place was Paul Carpenter, last year’s champion.

Also worthy of a mention are new learners, Cooper and Alex, who finished 8th and 9th respectively. A great result!

Congratulations to Irenee and Ayako who have won the club’s inaugural Intermediate pairs championship competition with an average of 56.5% over the four week competition.

In second place were Sue Aitken and Barb Wilson with a very respectable average of 56%.

Mathew Chestnut and Steve Hunt, our newest intermediate players in the field, came third - a great achievement.

Congratulations to all eight pairs who competed and many thanks to those who came to make up five tables each night to make it a viable competition. 

Huge congratulations to new partnership, Mathew Chestnut and Michele Liddell, who win the first competition of the Waikato Bays Intermediate league in Hamilton on Saturday playing consistently well all day achieving 60.55% in the morning and 65% in the afternoon. Special kudos to Mathew as he only turned intermediate this year.

Lovely to see other Cambridge intermediate and junior players enjoying the event as well.  Congratulations to you all for making the day a fun one!

Thank you, Irenee, for the photo,

A reminder that our new intermediate PAIRS championship is commencing 25 Feb to 18 March alongside the junior INDIVIDUAL series.

To be eligible to win:

INTERMEDIATES- you need the same partner throughout (one sub permitted)

JUNIORS- you need to play with a different partner each week

If you need help finding a partner, please contact the Wednesday night partnership steward, Beth Kingsley.