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Great wins at Coffs Harbour and Te Awamutu


By Anna Kalma - Posted on 19 August 2019

Kathy and Ken Yule travelled across to Australia this week to compete at the Coffs Harbour Congress in NSW.

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They won the Swiss Pairs competition in front of 126 other pairs in style - taking first place after the first match and winning their remaining 7 matches to take the top prize and $2000 prize money. Their last opponents were their team mates for the next competition GeO Tislevoll and Joan Butts (Geo is in the New Zealand Open team and Joan is a prominent Australian player and teacher). The team had a good start but faded to 7th after 8 rounds of matches ... still a good result in a strong field.

You can read about their repeat victory (they also won it back in 2013) and a few of their tricky hands in the bulletin the day after their Swiss victory:
http://www.abfevents.com.au/events/results/2019/ccg/bulletins/03_August_...

In the meantime, Judith and Joanne continue their winning ways in the intermediate division showing the reason they have been selected for the Waikato Bays IP team. This time winning the Te Awamutu Intermediate in the weekend topping both sessions with 60% and also claiming top spot on the Intermediate League after 6 events.

Looking forward to seeing what the home ground advantage offers them in the Matamata Intermediate coming up in September!

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