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Deal
of the Week World
Championships Update Friday
The
World Championships are being held in Wuhan,
China from 14th-28th September. England
has a team in each of the four events: Open,
Women, Mixed and Senior. Manchester
players involved are John Holland and Alan
Mould in the Seniors and Michael Byrne playing
with Fiona Brown in the Mixed and Catherine
Draper playing with Gillian Fawcett in the
Women's. Good luck to all the
teams. Some matches will be on
BBO.
With
18 of 23 round robin matches played all the
England teams are in the top eight which, if
they remain so, means they qualify for the
knock out phase. Best placed are the
Mixed team who have been leading since round
five and have a good lead. The Seniors
are in fourth place and are well ahead of the
ninth placed team. The Women's team is
in third place. All these three teams
look likely to qualify for the knock out
stages.
Welsh Foursomes Congratulations
to Jeff Smith, Jeff Morris, John Hassett, Peter
Foster and John Roberts who won the Welsh Fours
at Wrexham over the weekend of 14-15th
September. Full results are on the North Wales web site.
 Peter
Foster, John Roberts, John Hassett, Jeff Morris
League
and Cup
The
league has started! The first match of the
season was played on 4th Sept in division
2. All the divisions have now been set up
by Adam Wiseberg. The draw for the first
round of the Higson Cup has also been
made. See the league and cup pages for
details.
Bolton Congress Congratulations
to Rodney Lighton and John Currie who won the
pairs at Bolton on Saturday 31st August by a
good margin. In fourth place were Stephen
Ward and Paul Morrell. In the Teams on
Sunday Alec Smalley, Barbara Lewis, Irene Davies
and Karen Reissmann were second, with Kath &
Alan Nelson, Stuart Shalom and Daniel Kelsall
fourth. Results are on the Bolton web site.
NBL Selections These are the selections for rounds 3 and 4 of the NBL to be played on Saturday 21st September and Saturday 12th October.
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