53rd UP State Bridge Championship at Meerut 202553rd UP State Bridge Championship & 11th Alexander Athletic Club Open Championship for Northern India took place at Alexander Athletic Club, Meerut from April 25 - 27, 2025. 26 teams highest since 2012 including 12 UP teams took part in the Championship. The event was very well organised by Meerut Bridge Association under patronage from Alexander Club. Alexander Club also gave away takeaway trophies to winners of super league, silver & pairs. The whole show was superbly managed by Sri CP Agarwal and Sri Pullak Garga. This is the 4th time Meerut is holding UP State Championship with first being in 2015 & last time being in 2023. Sri P Narasinga Rao was CTD and singlehandedly managed the show. Sri TC Pant looked after technical work very efficiently.
From 2012 the UP State Championship was made open to neighbouring states with a new trophy being instituted for best non UP team since 2018.
Lala Sriram Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Team, Madhava Prasad Trophy for Swiss League Winner and Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for Best Non UP Team in Duplicate Event & Nimita Agarwal Trophy for Overall Winner
26 teams took part in the event and played 7 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards after which 6 teams qualified for Super League. Johri Club - 108.02 topped the swiss league followed by Rohit Wrappers - 101.77, Doon Valley - 92.35 finished third, Alexander Club Blue - 85.51 were fourth, Gladiators - 84.2 were fifth and Ganga Gomti, Lucknow - 80.92 were last team to qualify. After 5 rounds of super league of 10 boards each the final results are:
1. Ganga Gomti, Lucknow (Amitabh Tayal, AK Sinha, BN Rastogi, Sushil Agarwal) - 68.11 UP State Champions & Winners of Lala Sriram Agarwal Trophy & Nimita Agarwal Trophy for being Overall Winners
2. Gladiators (Tarun Singhal, Anurag Pandey, Umesh Kumar Singh, Rakesh Chandra Sharma, Anuj Sharma) - 56.46
3. Johri Club (Dheeraj Kumar, Monu Kumar Ranchhad, Naveen Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar) - 52 Swiss League Toppers & Winners of Madhava Prasad Trophy
4. Rohit Wrappers (Girish Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sinha, Deepak Kothiwal, Sanjay Amist) - 45.46
5. Alexander Club Blue (ML Jain, Sanjay Jain, Ravinder Singh, Vakul Aren, HK Girdhar) - 40.92
6. Doon Valley (RVS Chauhan, TK Mandal, Abhishek Gupta, Prithviraj) - 33.05 Winners of Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for being Best Non UP Team
This is 14th time teams from Lucknow have become State Champions. The other winners are
Prayagraj 26, Moradabad 4, Varanasi 3, Kanpur 2, Nainital (undivided UP) 1, Singrauli 1, Aligarh 1, Johri, Baghpat - 1. Ever since state championship was made open to neighbouring states thrice teams from outside UP have come first.
VC Agarwal Trophy for Duplicate Silver Event
There was a Silver event for non qualifiers of Duplicate event. 19 teams took part in the event. They played swiss league of 6 rounds of 8 boards each. The results are as follows:
1. Alexander Club Red (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, CP Agarwal, Pullak Garga, Mukul Goel, Ajay Agarwal) - 84.40
2. Lucky Four, Lucknow (Shantanu Rastogi, Vipin Rai, Anup Kumar, Wg Cdr GK Johri) - 79.15
3. Adaa, Delhi (Ambarish Wadera, Anukul Mandal, Anil Bharihoke, Devi Bhatnagar) - 73.77
4. Northern Lights, Delhi (GP Aggarwal, MPS Chauhan, Amit Nangpal, Indrajit Sensarma) - 73.11
5. Delhi Blues (TC Pant, Rajesh Jain, DK Tewari, PC Gupta, Prakash Bhandari, JB Sengupta) - 69.95
IK Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Pair in IMP Pairs Event & SS Gupta Trophy for Overall Pair Winner
48 pairs took part in the event. The event was played over two sessions on final day of 20 boards each with Scrambelled Mitchell movement. From 2018 the event is played as IMP pair event instead of Matchpoints. The results are as follows:
1. Girish Kumar & Sunil Kumar Sinha (Greater Noida/Others) - 87 Winners of IK Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Pair & SS Gupta Trophy for Overall Pair Winner
2. Naveen Kumar & Sudhir Kumar (Johri)- 66
3. Maneesh Bahuguna & Dr Nikita Kamal (Delhi) - 58
4. Wg Cdr GK Johri & Anup Kumar (Lucknow) - 48
5. Sunil Mishra & SK Gautam (Others) - 44
6. RVS Chauhan & TK Mandal (Dehradun) - 41
Best Local Pair: CP Agarwal & Pullak Garga
Best Ladies Pair: Bhavna Naraindas & Kavita Dhawan
VK Chaube Trophy for Player of the Year having Highest Masterpoint from UP in 2024
1. Umesh Kumar Singh (Kanpur)
1. Rakesh Chandra Sharma (Kanpur)
3. AK Sinha (Lucknow)
Posted: 28/04/2025 3:30 PM
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