Rossen Gunev and Ivan Nanev from Bulgaria won the Monaco Cavendish Pairs 2013. Second place went to Krzysztof Martens and Dominic Filipowicz from Poland; third place to the Norwegian living in Monaco Geir Helgemo and Thor Helness.
Krzysztof Martens is the coach of Monaco open Team: here you can find the interview realized in Dublin where Monaco won the Gold Medal at the European Championships 2012: Everybody needs a coach >>
Nathalie Frey (Monaco) and Babette Hugon (France) won the first edition of the Monaco Ladies Cavendish Pairs. Second place went to Cathy Baldysz and Anna Sarniak from Poland and third place to Catherine D’Ovidio (France) and Disa Eythorsdottir (USA).
Full scores and results at official site: click here >>
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A short history of Cavendish. It was the 1975 when The Cavendish Club of New York started the so called “Cavendish Invitational Pairs”. In few years, the trophy became the most important pairs event in the World. In 1991 the Cavendish Club ceased the activity, but the tourney survived, just transferred to Las Vegas, thanks to WBP (World Bridge Productions, a corporation with Bob Hamman, Roy Welland, Bill Rosenbaum and Bob Blanchard).
Before the Cavendish Invitational Pairs there’s a Calcutta auction on the pairs participants; who thinks a pair will win, can “purchase” them, but in competition with others. The money of the auction makes the pool that will be divided between the other bidders in predetermined percentage, depending on the placement of the pair they bid on (or the pairs: in a Calcutta auction had better to wager on several runners).
According to an agreement between The Monaco Bridge Federation (FMB) and World Bridge Productions (WBP), since 2012 the Cavendish Invitational moved to Monaco.
All previous editions of the tourney were played in the week leading up the Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in U.S., and in Italy, on the second Sunday of May: now the Cavendish is held on October, after the International Teams Tournament of Monaco.
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