Formidables (Kaustubh Bendre, Sayantan Kushari, Kaustabh Nandi, Sagnik Roy, Sumit Mukherjee and Rajeshwar Tewari) scored an emphatic win over Arun Jain (R Sridharan, Sapan Desai, Subir Majumdar and J Srinivasan Iyengar) to retain their title of All India Shree Cement Bridge Tournament Champions. After sharing the first session, they won each of the remaining sessions by 17, 14 and 21 imps.
In the play offs for 3 rd place Pradeep emerged triumphant with an emphatic, 37 imp win over Bangur Cement Match Point Pairs Finals.
MATCHPOINT PAIRS
116 pairs played the MP Pairs elimination over 3 sessions of 18 boards each. The event was won by Arun Bapat and Swarnendu Banerjee with Binod Shaw and Sanjit Dey in second place. Mithun Mukherjee and Rajesh Jain secured 3rd place, less than one match point behind
IMP Pairs Finals
70 pairs played the IMP Pairs elimination over 2 sessions of 22 boards each. The event was won by Tapas Dasgupta and SK Mondal. Veteran Manas Mukherjee and Anirban Mitra were in second place with Biplab Down and Bidyut Goswami in 3rd position.
As a matter of fact, the top two pairs were in a tie which had to be broken. The third placed pair was also in a tie with 4th placed Soham Sarkar and Subashree Basu.