Last week, the 2022 World Bridge Team Championship Asia Pacific Qualifier was held, and the Beijing Jingneng Chinese men's bridge team qualified for the open team competition on behalf of China.
The Open Team Competition has 10 teams from China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Macau, and the tournament adopts a double round robin format, with 9 rounds per round robin to determine the final ranking with a cumulative VP.
The Beijing Jingneng Chinese men's bridge team, which represents the Chinese team, is led by coach Liu Jie, and the players are Kang Meng, Li Xiaoyi, Hu Linlin, Liu Jing, Hu Junjie and Chen Yichao.
In the first round-robin competition, the Beijing Jingneng Chinese men's team faced the first official international network competition in two years relatively "slow and hot", under heavy pressure, the players encouraged each other to summarize and analyze in time, adjust the state, and gradually narrow the score gap, ranking fifth at the end.
Entering the second round of competition, the Beijing Jingneng Chinese men's team stubbornly fought hard, caught up, gave full play to the best level of competition, made a good start with five consecutive wins, and withstood the pressure of defeating the opponent in the last round, and finally won the world championship ticket with the third place of 209.47VP.
In addition, in other categories, the Chinese women's team also qualified for the World Championships with the 3rd place, the Chinese mixed team with the 2nd place, and the Chinese senior team with the 3rd place.
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