TN players dominate Summer Nationals

Chennai, June 20: The local players dominated in all the major events of the 41st Indian Summer Bridge Nationals championships here today.

In the Agarwala Pairs event, local pair of S K Chari and D Vijay came out trumps with a tally of 92 ‘imps’ in the 54 board finals to lift the trophy.

Ariz Anklesaria and P V Vahalia of Ahmedabad came second with 77 and Sumit Mukherjee and Debabrata Majumder of Kolkata were third with 73 imps.

In the Ranga & Company sponsored Consolation Pairs event, (for the Company sponsored prizes) V J Puranik and A J Puranik of Maharashtra turned out winners but here also, the Tamil Nadu pair of S N Subramanian and Kalyani Iswaran came in second.

–Agencies