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Open Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, two rounds were played in the Open Teams. In Round 23, the Netherlands defeated Denmark 16.88-3.12, Norway beat Estonia 15.38-4.62 and France overcame Poland 16.88-3.12. Israel also scored heavily, defeating Lithuania 16.42-3.58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final round of the day saw Norway defeat Switzerland 13.52-6.48, while Denmark suffered a second consecutive loss, 14.80-5.20 against France. The Netherlands continued their climb with an 18.44-1.56 victory over Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 24 rounds, Norway leads with 321.76 VPs, followed by Denmark on 314.70 and Israel on 296.21. England is fourth on 292.34 and the Netherlands fifth on 291.24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three rounds were played in the Women Teams. England won all three matches, defeating Romania 11.76-8.24, Greece 13.28-6.72 and Poland 11.76-8.24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweden also enjoyed an excellent day, beating Portugal 13.28-6.72, Italy 15.74-4.26 and Iceland 17.17-2.83 to move into second place. The Netherlands remained among the leaders thanks to victories over Ireland and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 15 rounds, England heads the standings with 213.26 VPs. Sweden is second with 201.48, followed by the Netherlands on 199.71, Norway on 189.89 and Denmark on 181.64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

France won all three matches played today. The leaders defeated Scotland 17.45-2.55 in Round 15, Poland 17.72-2.28 in Round 16 and Italy 15.74-4.26 in Round 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Netherlands also had a strong day, defeating Spain 18.21-1.79 and Sweden 15.19-4.81 to move into second place. Poland’s 20.00-0.00 victory over Latvia in Round 17 lifted them to fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France leads the standings with 227.15 VPs, ahead of the Netherlands on 215.77 and Denmark on 213.96. Poland is fourth on 206.42 and T\u00fcrkiye fifth on 200.03.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belgium started the day in first place after defeating Sweden 17.59-2.41 in Round 16. However, Poland took control by defeating England 19.69-0.31 in Round 17 and Norway 16.09-3.91 in Round 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belgium recovered in the final round with a 14.18-5.82 victory over France, while Latvia remained in contention after defeating Scotland 12.80-7.20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 18 rounds, Poland leads with 240.73 VPs. Belgium is second on 236.75, followed by Latvia on 221.89, England on 217.69 and Romania on 209.58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With only a few rounds remaining, the races remain open in all four series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"level":[],"class_list":["post-23189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23210,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions\/23210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=23189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}