TOLANI JUNIOR/SUB JUNIOR NATIONALS 2024

Held at Gupta Gardens, Nasik from 24-26 May

The Tolani Junior and Sub Junior Nationals commenced from 24-26 May at Gupta Gardens, Nashik under the auspices of Bridge Federation of India organized by Maharashtra Bridge Association along with Nashik District Bridge Assocation. Registrations for this event were taken online through BFI website wherein 90 kids had enrolled for the national championship

All the Juniors were provided free accommodation, breakfast, lunch, hi tea and dinner. All the Juniors had reported at Gupta Gardens on 23^rd May where they were provided the accommodation facilities.

After the close of registrations, the actual list of entries consisted of:

a) 42 Participants – Under 16 years

b) 12 Participants – Under 21 years

c) 16 Participants – Under 26 years

d) 18 Participants – in Under 31 years categories totalling to 84 kids from 15 states across the country

This championship schedule consisted teams and pairs events:

24^th May – IMP Pairs Events (U16/U21&26/U31)

25^th May – Team Event (U16/U21&26/U31)

26^th May – Matchpoint Event (U16/U21&26/U31)

Some of the Juniors participating here like are podium finishers from World Championships 2022 (held at Salsomaggorie, Italy and 2023 at Veldhoven, Netherlands)

There were National Coaches appointed by BFI to supervise and evaluate the juniors:

Keshav Samant (National Coach)
Vinay Desai (National Coach)
Girish Bijoor (Assistant Coach)
Bindiya Naidoo (Assistant Coach- Girls)
Hemant Pande – Chief Organizer

The Opening Ceremony was held at 10 am on 24^th May with dignitaries of the local Mitravihar Club who have been quite instrumental in promotion of Junior Bridge Education program in Maharashtra

The opening day kicked off with the pairs event divided in 2 groups of U16, U21,26 and U31 categories where they played 2 sessions of 18 boards each after which top 12 pairs will advance to the Final Gold league while balance pairs will play the silver league

After the end of the Qualifying Rounds the results were as under:

*Pos*	*Pair*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*
1	24	Pradip Dey	Babhrubahan Bose U31	+110.00
2	21	Rounak Ghosh	Sagnik Roy U31	+88.00
3	7	Surajit Bar	Souvik Kar U31	+86.00
4	1	Soumadeep Ghosh	Arya Chakraborty U31	+73.00
5	22	Vineet Nandu	Kunj Chheda	+57.00
6	27	Taral Rodirgues	Tilakraj Chowdhury U26	+45.00
7	25	Saswata Ballav	Monu Kumar U26	+43.00
8	6	Dinesh Babu	Sai Manju U26	+41.00
9	4	Swarnashish Chatterjee	Mathew Chandy U31	+36.00
10	10	Subhashree Basu	Soham Sarkar U31	+34.00
11	2	Vigneshwaran	Aryan Mehta U21	+30.00
12	30	Kalapana Gurjar	Vidya Patel U26	+26.00
13	9	Pabitra Majumdar	Debajyoti Samanta U31	+12.00
14	26	Rekha B	Kavya GU U26	+5.00
15	12	Vijay kumar	Monu Singh U31	+1.00
16	29	Jyothssana	Shaun Joseph U26	-9.00
17	32	Prithvi Raj Singh	Adhiraj Singh Rathore U26	-9.00
18	23	Nachiketa	Madhav Prakash U21	-25.00
19	3	Bhuvneshwaran	Balamauralikrishna	-47.50
20	31	Udbhav	Tharun Reddy U26	-86.00
21	8	Rajaganapathy R	Yogavignesh R u21	-104.00
22	11	Mukilkumar	Abhishek U26	-133.00
23	5	Shahid Ahmed Shah	Rizwan Bhatt	-134.80
24	28	Thamizhmaran	Pravin I U21	-143.00

The Finals were divided in two leagues (Gold and Silver) in the evening session where they played all play all format:

GOLD FINAL				SILVER FINAL
*Pos*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*	*Pos*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*
1	Swarnashish Ch	Mathew Chandy U31	65.6	1	Prithvi Raj Singh	Adhiraj Singh Rathore	83
2	Taral Rodrigues	Tilakraj Chowdhury	52.5	2	Vijay Kumar	Monu Singh U31	48
3	Pradip Dey	Babrubahan Bose U31	45	3	Jyothssana	Shaun Joseph U26	31
4	Rounak Ghosh	Sagnik Roy U31	35.8	4	Nachiketa	Madhav Prakash U21	22
5	Surajit Bar	Souvik Kar U31	24.6	5	Pabitra Majumdar	Debajyoti Samanta U31	16
6	Soumadeep Ghosh	Arya Chakraborty u31	-1.7	6	Rekha B	Kavya GU U26	8
7	Vigneshwaran	Aryan Mehta U21	-13	7	Bhuvneshwaran	Balamuralikrishna	3
8	Kalpana Gurjar	Vidya Patel U26	-22.4	8	Rajaganapathy R	Yogavignesh U21	-3
9	Subhashree Basu	Soham Sarkar U31	-23.6	9	Thamizhmaran	Pravin I U21	-30
10	Dinesh Babu	Sai Manju u26	-23.9	10	Udbhav	Tharun Reddy u26	-42
11	Vineet Nandu	Kunj Chheda u21	-29.3	11	Mukilkumar	Abhishek U26	-43
12	Saswata Ballaw	Monu Kumar U26	-42.7	12	Shahid Ahmed Shah	Rizwan Bhatt	-93

RESULTS OF U16 PAIRS (IMP)

*Pos*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*
1	Rashi Jahagirdar	Tirthraj Chowdhury	+165.30
2	Saikritick Satish	Adhiyaman Zodypache	+125.90
3	Agilan Zodypache	Ananthan Sathiyanarayana	+89.60
4	Samir Ramprasad	Maithili Mahendra	+65.10
5	Krishanth	Roshan	+49.00
6	Anushree R	Harrita S	+48.00
7	Akrit Rodrigues	Advik Rodirugues	+29.90
8	Bharat K	Jayraj	+14.90
9	Sharvan	Nimalan	-18.70
10	Dhiraj	Khushal	-30.90
11	Theeya S	Krithika	-34.10
12	Trisha	Chethan	-40.50
13	Sahana	Sadhana	-49.60
14	Rithika	B Shruthi	-53.30
15	Vishwa	Sundaram	-57.60
16	Jayashrri	Nayanashri	-119.50
17	Rithika S	Hasini A	-183.50

25^TH MAY – TEAM EVENT

The second day of the championship had all the junior teams to constitute the teams as per their age categories wherein 3 groups were formed for U16, U21&26 and U31 categories:

There were 8 teams in U16, 8 teams in U21&26 and 4 teams in U31 categories. The format of the event was all play all for U16 and U21&26 while for U31 category, it was a double elimination format

The results of the team event were:

U16 Category:

WINNER – Rashi Jahagirdar, Tirthraj Chowdhury, Saikritick Satish, Adhiyaman Zodypache

RUNNER UP – Krishanth, Roshan, Anushree R, Harrita S

*Pos*	*Team*	*Team*	*Matches*							Total VPs
1	1	RASHI’S TEAM	17.79	20	20	18.56	18.73	20	20	135.08
2	4	KRISHANTH	11.46	0	3.11	17.12	15.54	20	18.56	85.79
3	7	AKRIT TEAM	8.54	20	0	16.38	10	10	14.92	79.84
4	6	AGILAN TEAM	2.21	0	16.89	16.11	12.33	6.85	17.99	72.38
5	5	THEEYA TEAM	17.35	7.67	20	3.62	4.46	0	2.01	55.11
6	2	SHARVAN TEAM	2.65	13.53	16.11	2.88	7.67	10	0	52.84
7	8	SUNDARAM TEAM	17.35	12.33	3.89	3.89	1.27	0	5.08	43.81
8	3	SAHANA TEAM	2.65	6.47	0	1.44	10	13.15	1.44	35.15

U21&26 Category:

WINNER – Vineet Nandu, Kunj Chheda, Saswata Ballaw, Monu Kumar

RUNNER UP – Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel, Dinesh Babu, Sai Manju

*Pos*	*Team*	*Team*	*Matches*							Total VPs
1	4	VINEET’S TEAM	18.04	15.75	11.27	19.37	20	20	19.85	124.28
2	6	KALPANA’S TEAM	15.75	18.83	8.73	20	16	20	18.97	118.28
3	2	NACHIKETA TEAM	20	20	20	0.63	4	18.04	16	98.67
4	1	TARAL’S TEAM	4.25	4.25	17.87	20	20	17.31	4	87.68
5	7	PRITHVI RAJ TEAM	1.96	1.17	2.13	19.85	20	1.96	20	67.07
6	5	BHUVNESHWARAN TEAM	0	20	11.67	0.15	0	2.69	1.03	35.54
7	3	UDBHAV TEAM	17.87	0	8.33	0	0	0	0.15	26.35
8	8	RAJAGANAPATHY TEAM	2.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.13

U31 Category:

WINNER – Soumadeep Ghosh, Arya Chakraborty , Subhashree Basu, Soham Sarkar

RUNNER UP – Swarnashish Chatterjee, Mathew Chandy, Pradip Dey, Babrubahan Bose

THIRD PLACE – Vijay Kumar, Monu Singh, Pabitra Majumdar, Debajyoti Samanta

FOURTH PLACE: Rounak Ghosh, Sagnik Roy, Souvik Kar, Surajit Bar.

26^th May: Matchpoint & Swiss Pairs

The final day of the national championship was held with Matchpoint Pairs event consisting of 18 pairs in U21/U26/U31 combined Categories with a complete round robin format while for the U16 category, there were 5 rounds of Swiss Pairs. The Juniors were made aware of the scoring methods and point calculations.

U21/26/31 Matchpoint Pairs Results:

*Pos*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*	Score %
1	Taral Rodrigues	Tilakraj Chowdhury U26	169.50	62.32
2	Subhashree Basu	Soham Sarkar U31	161.50	59.38
3	Surajit Bar	Souvik Kar U31	156.00	57.35
4	Rounak Ghosh	Sagnik Roy U31	151.50	55.70
5	Swarnashish Chatterjee	Mathew Chandy U31	145.50	53.49
6	Soumadeep Ghosh	Arya Chakraborty u31	142.50	52.39
7	Saswata Ballaw	Monu Kumar U26	141.00	51.84
8	Vineet Nandu	Kunj Chheda u21	137.00	50.37
9	Kalpana Gurjar	Vidya Patel U26	134.50	49.45
10	Pradip Dey	Babrubahan Bose U31	132.50	48.71
11	Vijay Kumar	Monu Singh U31	132.00	48.53
12	Rekha B	Kavya GU U26	131.50	48.35
13	Dinesh Babu	Sai Manju u26	129.00	47.43
14	Pabitra Majumdar	Debajyoti Samanta U31	126.50	46.51
15	Jyothssana	Shaun Joseph U26	126.00	46.32
16	Nachiketa	Madhav Prakash U21	118.00	43.38
17	Rashi Jahagirdar	Tirthraj Chowdhury U16	108.00	39.71
18	Vigneshwaran	Aryan Mehta U21	105.50	38.79

U16 Swiss Pairs Results:

*Pos*	*Pair*	*Player 1*	*Player 2*	*Score*
1	1	Saikritick Satish	Adhiyaman Zodypache	80.72
2	17	Bhuvneshwaran	Mukilkumar	80.52
3	22	Prithvi Raj Singh	Adhiraj Singh Rathore U26	67.55
4	6	Akrit Rodrigues	Advik Rodirugues	67.43
5	5	Anushree R	Harrita S	65.96
6	20	Udbhav	Tharun Reddy U26	62.19
7	13	Rithika	B Shruthi	59.62
8	10	Theeya S	Krithika	54.87
9	18	Pravin	Yogavignesh U21	54.18
10	14	Vishwa	Sundaram	52.46
11	2	Agilan Zodypache	Ananthan Sathiyanarayana	52.40
12	3	Samir Ramprasad	Maithili Mahendra	50.65
13	4	Krishanth	Roshan	49.63
14	7	Bharat K	Jayraj	44.57
15	15	Jayashrri	Nayanashri	41.35
16	8	Sharvan	Nimalan	37.69
17	16	Rithika S	Hasini A	35.65
18	12	Sahana	Sadhana	34.00
19	11	Trisha	Chethan	33.00
20	19	Thamizhmaran	Balamuralikrishna U21	18.77
21	21	Rajaganapathy	Abhishek U26	16.79

Prize Ceremony:

The National Championship ended with a glorious prize ceremony with total cash prizes of Rs. 90000 being distributed along with complimentary gifts to the merit holders. All participants were given the certificates for merit and participation by BFI and MBA for their records.

Mr. Keshav Samant congratulated all the merit holders and wished them the best for their future along with safe travels. Moreover, BFI had also shortlisted few candidates towards a training camp for the recommended pairs by the coaches which was conducted later at Kensington Club, Nasik from 27-30^th May.