Sumit and Debabrata bag the Shree Cement Pair Tile in the 61st Winter National Bridge Meet
Kolkata/IBNS: Asian Games Bronze Medalists Sumit Mukherjee and Debabrata Mazumder from Railways lived up to the expectation and emerged champions at the Shree Cement Pairs event in the Gold Section collecting 436.4 Match Points (MPs) on the penultimate day of the 61st Winter National Bridge Championship at Netaji Indoor Stadium here Saturday.
This was their second winning of the title, the earlier being at the Nationals held at Ahmedabad during 2015. They will receive a purse of rupees twenty five thousand, which is winners’ stake and handsome trophies.
Sumit and Debabrata, who as part of Railways ‘A’ team which finished 4th in the team event for Ruoa Gold Cup in this meet, earlier were at the 4th place after two elimination rounds yesterday. But this morning they began promisingly and moved up as the match progressed. Saturday’s victory would definitely bring them back into the limelight again.
Commenting on their performance today, Sumit, a veteran of many international battles, said, "We played well from the beginning today. I am quite satisfied with our performnace as the field was quite tough. We combined well to maintain our lead." They would be next playing for India in an international tournament at Montecarlo during February next.
Asian Games Gold Medalists Shibnath Dey Sarkar and Pranab Bardhan, who lost in the team event quarter final for the Ruia Gold Cup, could not rise to the occasion this time as well since they finished fifth today with 399.3 MPs. Ms. Kiran Nadar and B Satyanarayan who were members of the team that won the Ruia Gold Cup in team event, could not repeat their feat and ended 10th here with 364.5 MPs
Sumit and Debabrata were followed by the duo Animesh Raj and Swapan Desai from Maharashtra who finished second with 407 MPs. Other results ( up to eighth position) in this event are : 3. Kaustabh Nandi & Kaustabh Bendre 404.8 MPs, 4. K R Venkatraman & Swarnendu Banerjee, 5. Shibnath De Sarkar & Pranab Bardhan 399.3 MPs, 6. Kalpana Mishra & Anil Padhye 394.2 MPs, 7.Keyzad Anklesaria & Rajeswar Tewari 380.5 MPs, 8. Ajoy Bagaria & Alok Sadhu 378.8 MPs.
In the Silver group of Shree Cement Pair event, meant for the lesser ranked players Santanu Chakraborty & Tanmoy Mazumdar finised at the top with 407.1 MPs and are folowed by A B Chakraborty & A B Bajoria (402.5), A K sinha & Nikita Kamal ( 390.6), Amitava Banerjee & Nikita Kamal (388.1), Mini Naidu & Priya Sinha (383.9), Pronab Roy & Hasibul Hasan (379.3), Pritam Das & Souvik Kar (378.1) and Ramkrishna Mazumdar & Indranil Chakraboty ( 378) .
The mixed pair event of the tournament would be held on Sunday-the concluding day.
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