The New Players Tournament is be a Pairs Duplicate Bridge Tournament with morning and afternoon sessions, scoring on the day (by computer!) and with Master Points and modest prizes being awarded. Help and guidance is on hand throughout if anyone is concerned about the rules, scoring or anything at all.
Those entering should be regular Bridge players either at home or at one of the smaller Bridge Clubs but if ranked at all should not be higher than Club Master.
The New Players Tournament for this season was held on Saturday 23rd March 2002 at Shire Hall. The winners were Alan Misson & Don Kyte.
| Posn | No | Names | % | LP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Alan Misson & Don Kyte | 69.81 | 72 | ||||
| 2 | 5 | Fred Allen & Vera Donert | 61.85 | 63 | ||||
| 3 | 23 | Kate Petrie & Anne Vidler | 60.00 | 54 | ||||
| 4 | 21 | Jan Goddard & Leslie Goddard | 58.33 | 45 | ||||
| 5 | 2 | Mary Doyle & Bakr Al-Tabbah | 57.59 | 36 | ||||
| 6 | 24 | Peter Grice & Ruth Katz | 56.11 | 27 | ||||
| 7 | 22 | Chris Smith & Julia Smith | 55.37 | 18 | ||||
| 8 | 36 | Pat Hall & Roger Hall | 54.81 | 9 | ||||
| 9 | 32 | Bryan Panter & Pam Megginson | 54.63 | |||||
| 10 | 25 | Ron Ritchie & Ruth Ritchie | 53.89 | |||||
| 11 | 34 | John Wilkerson & Debra Wilkerson | 51.85 | |||||
| 12 | 3 | Michael Brown & Maggie Brookes | 51.48 | |||||
| 13 | 4 | Geoff Conlan & Trisha Conlan | 48.89 | |||||
| 14 | 26 | Gulzar Waljee & Teresa O'Dell | 47.22 | |||||
| 15 | 15 | Margaret Stokes & Anne Wyatt | 46.85 | |||||
| 16 | 1 | Ron Ferrari & Barbara Wilson | 46.48 | |||||
| 17 | 11 | Andrew Wilkinson & Margaret Mitchley | 45.37 | |||||
| 18 | 12 | Barbara Cox & Margaret West | 43.52 | |||||
| 19 | 13 | John Marsh & Linda Marsh | 41.85 | |||||
| 20 | 33 | Gloria Philbrick & Tricia Bruce | 41.67 | |||||
| 21 | 16 | Linda Heath & Will Heath | 40.56 | |||||
| 22 | 35 | Mary Vickers & Dorothy Millgate | 39.26 | |||||
| 23 | 14 | Jill Walden & Susan Lee | 37.96 | |||||
| 24 | 31 | David Brodie & Diana Brodie | 34.63 |