By WBF In News On 19th August 2017

The first phase of the Funbridge World Youth Open Bridge Championships – the pairs games– drew to a closeon Friday with a prize-giving for the pairs winners before an enthusiastic crowd of mostly youth players in the Vu-graph auditorium.

Junior Pairs podium:

1. Linus Dahlstroem (Sweden) – Simon Ekenberg (Sweden)
2. Edouard Du Corail (France) – Loic Neveu (France)
3. Julien Bernard (France) – Baptiste Combescure (France)

Girls Pairs podium:

1. Sarah Combescure (France) –  Mathilde Thuillez (France)
2. Yunpeng Chen (China) – Jiaming Xu (China)
3. Yajie Lu (China) – Xinyao Ruan (China)

Youngsters Pairs podium:

1. Cheng Deng (China) – Zhijie Yuan (China)
2. Federico Porta (Italy) – Gianmarco Giubilo (Italy)
3. Arthur Boulin (France) – Theo Guillemin (France)

Kids Pairs podium:

1. Yizhou Liu (China) – Mingyu Lu (China)
2. Ruicheng Mao (China) – Zhaochen Yu (China)
3. Licong Cheng (China) – Penghao Wang (China)