KARACHI, Aug 4: Shipyard grabbed the weekly title of the Swiss Movement Bridge on Sunday at Aslam Bridge Hall with 94 Victory Points (VPs).

Shipyard comprising Ghufran Ashraf, Khalid Mohiuddin, Hasan Askari, Mubashir Puri, Shahab Khan and Imran Jaka netted winning swings against their opponents win the title.

Starting their journey to the top, Shipyard first defeated Chandna 18-12, then played a winning draw with Shahab sharing 30 VPs equally.

In the next round they faced Free Bidders and ruled the game to win 24-6. Dynamo fell to their aggression when Shipyard outpointed them 25-5 in the fourth round.

Last week’s winning team, EFU offered them a tough fight but Shipyard managed their winning spree and added 16 conceding 14 to EFU.

EFU and MAQ both scored 86 VPs. However, on better average score, EFU were given an edge over MAQ. EFU lost surprisingly the opening match to Dynamo 7-23 . Full won next two matches very impressively against ABC 25-5 and Chandna 24-6 and giving tough time to Shipyard.

Hasan Sajjad, Zafar Zaki Nasir Reza Khan, and Azher combined extremely well for EFU.

MAQ with its regular pairs of F.A. Naeem, Maqbool, Mahmood and Siddiqui also won four matches. They lost the opener to Free Bidders 10-20 then won against Sprinters 16-14, A.CES 25-5. Ahmed-IV 16-14 and Dynamo 19-11.

In the Pairs event twenty six pair contested the Mitchel Movement. Competing from East-West direction the on-form pair of Ziaulllah-Hamid Mohiuddin left all other opponents stone cold by scoring 70%.

Mubashir Puri-Tariq Zafar scored 55% for the second berth Iqbal Hyder-Nuri Pasha claimed third birth with a score of 53%.

From the North-South direction, the veteran pair of M.G. Siddiqui-S.P. Jamal topped with the score of 58.89%, very closely followed by F.A. Naeem-Maqbool Ahmed 58.18 and Asghar Abbas-Faheem Ahmed 55.49%.—APP