State Open Pairs winners crowned

November 4, 2025

A huge congratulations to our new State Open Pairs Champions, Wieslaw Przewozniak and Patrick Jiang! They cleared the rest of the pack by 2.31 red points.

In clear second place were Cheng Huang & Michael Zhu, while Nicoleta Giura and Nick Hughes held of the rest of the pack to finish in third place. Well done to the top three Pairs!

State Open Pairs champs – Wieslaw Przewozniak and Patrick Jiang (with Bridge NSW’s Fraser Rew)

State Open Pairs 2nd place – Cheng Huang and Michael Zhan (with Bridge NSW’s Fraser Rew)

State Open Pairs 3rd place – Nicoleta Giura and Nick Hughes

Country Pairs

In the Country Pairs, top honours went to Eunice de Vries & Wendy Mitchell, flying the flag for our regional players!

Country Pairs champs – Eunice de Vries and Wendy Mitchell

Spring Swiss Pairs

Wrapping up the weekend on the Sunday, the Spring Swiss Pairs saw bridge legends Warren Lazer & Pauline Gumby lose only their first match to take first place with some large winning margins on the board.

Also only going down one hand, Linda King and Avril Zets netted themselves a tight second place from Michael Machado and Kamalesh Gupta, who won all of the matches by smaller margins to come a respectable third place.

Spring Swiss Pairs champs – Warren Lazer and Pauline Gumby

Spring Swiss Pairs 2nd place – Linda King and Avril Zets

Spring Swiss Pairs 3rd place – Michael Machado and Kamalesh Gupta

Congratulations to all top performers and participants.

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