The United States Bridge Federation (USBF), started the Open United States Bridge Championship, which also will qualify teams for the World Bridge Games to be played in Poland at Wroclaw from 3rd to 17th September.
The USBF event is taking place at Grand Hyatt, Denver, CO; started on Friday, May 6th, and ending on Sunday, May 15th. Women Championship will take place from 30th May.
Nineteen teams registered for this event. Three had a bye to further stages (Gordon, Diamond and Fireman); sixteen teams entered the round robin; twelve of them qualified for the Round of 16.
The nineteen original teams were the following:
Bye to Quarterfinals:
Gordon: Gordon-Rajadhyaksha, Berkowitz-Sontag, Pszczola-Rosenberg
Bye to Round of 16:
Diamond: Diamond-Platnik, Greco-Hampson, Bathurst-Lall
Fireman: Fireman-Wolpert, Kranyak-Demuy, Hurd-Woolridge
Contestants in Round Robin. Qualified to R16 (in order of RR scoring):
1st Nickell: Nickell-Katz, Levin-Weinstein, Meckstroth-Rodwell
2nd Gupta: Gupta-Miller-Weichsel, Chambers-Schermer
3rd Robinson: Robinson-Boyd, Stewart-Woolsey, Hamman-Bramley
4th Schwartz: Schwartz-Graves, Bertens-Cheek, Compton-Passell
5th Fleisher: Fleisher-Martel, Del’Monte-Willenken, Grue-Moss
6th Coren: Coren-Bates-Garner, Ekeblad-Granovetter
7th Wolfson: Wolfson-Silverman, Cohen-Cohler, Kamil-Zia
8th Jolly: Jolly-Herman, Arbit-Tebha
9th Wildawsky: Wildavsky-Zur Campanile, Beatty-Robbins
10th Dinkin: Dinkin-Tunçok, Brescoll-Lien, Grossack-Grossack
11th Harris: Harris-Morgan, Jacobs-Vogel, Barron
12 Reynolds: Reynolds-Kerr, Pelka-Daniels
Not qualified:
13th McAllister: McAllister-Dwyer, Kriegel-Smith
14th Jacobus: Jacobus-Jacobus, Holligan-Janitschke-Smith
15th Humpreys: Humphreys-Winestock, Jones-Ware
16th Lo: Lo-Liu, Pettis-Shi
Round of 16 results at halfway (60 boards out of 120. Actually played by fourteen teams. Bold letters where the lowest seeded teams are leading):
Diamond-Dinkin 151-145
Fireman-Jolly 183-143
Nickell-Reynolds 275-28
Fleisher-Wildawsky 116-132
Schwartz-Harris 157-132
Wolfson-Gupta 98-92
Robinson-Coren 72-179
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