Aditi Jhaveri and Marianne Karmarkar combined well as a team and emerged champions in the Amla Ruia Women Pairs competition of the 66th Ashok Ruia Memorial National Bridge Championships being played at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Sports Complex, Balewadi, Pune.
In the final league round, Jhaveri and Karmarkar won the title handsomely with a total of 73 imps at the end of 51 boards in the all-play - all finals played amongst 18 pairs to finish as the National women bridge champions.
In second place was the pair of Vasanti Shah (Mubai) and Gopika Tandon (Delhi) who finished way behind with 64 imps. Alka M. Kshirsagar and Bharati Dey claimed the third position with a poor score of 43 imps.
Overnight leaders Asha Sharma and Puja Batra, both from Delhi finished in sixth position with 28 imps.
