Sad to say, our Senior Team did not move forward from the Round of 16. We were leading 41 - 9 after the first quarter, largely on the strength of two good slams bid by Jurek and Stephen that were not reached by the opponents. We were all very happy with the start but unfortunately the Hungarian client decided not to play at all, to give his team a good chance to come back, which they did!.
There were three slams that determined the outcome of the match. The Bowmans reached a very good, cold slam that was not reached at the other table, but Johnny pulled the wrong card from his hand - 22 imp swing. Then Doug and Ed reached an aggressive small slam that, if the king of trumps was on side was heavily favoured to make - it was about a 40% slam that was bid because of style differences. And finally, the opponents reached a grand slam that needed specificially a king doubleton onside, missing 5, and it was!
So today we had off and visited the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. The bad air quality is getting to me and my throat burns - I miss the pure air of Victoria!
The Transnational Mixed Teams started this evening. Our teammates - Stephen and Jurek, Pamela Nisbet and one of the members of the Polish women's team (Margaret...) - are playing the first two matches this evening and we start tomorrow morning.
This is my final message from Beijing - you can follow our progress throught the links on the CBF webpage.
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