Bridge news

At the World Bridge Series in Orlando, Florida, the matches for the rounds of 64 and 32 Open teams have taken place, writes Julian Pottage, Bridge Correspondent.

The all-english Allfrey team (Alexander Allfrey, Andrew Robson, Thomas Paske and Edward Jones) has won through to the round of 16, beating Cayne in the round of 32. Multinational teams in the last 16 that include at least one English player are Frogs (Tony Forrester), Schwartz (David Gold) and Tulin (David Bahkshi). A team with two Irish players, Adam Mesbur and Nicholas Fitzgibbon, Texan Aces, has also made it to the last 16.

In the Women’s teams, both the Anglo-american Baker team and the Anglo-scottish-scandinavian Smith team have made it into the last 8. Both teams have started their their quarter-final matches strongly. Baker (Sally Brock, Fiona Brown and 4 Americans) leads Poland 138-127, while Smith (Nicola Smith, Yvonne Wiseman, Paula Leslie, 2 Swedes and a Norwegian) has a huge 168-47 lead against the American Quinn team.

Spectators can watch the action in Orlando from 3 pm UK time at www.bridgebase.com