Sabine Auken (North) and Daniela von Arnim of Germany was playing against China when this hand came up.
Holding S103 H109842 DQ10 C8762 on lead with the following auction. What would you lead?
Dealer East. all NV.
| West | North | East | South |
| 1D | pass | ||
| 2NT* | pass | 3NT | all pass |
Sabine found the queen of diamond lead!
The full deal is.
| North | ||
| ♠ 103 | ||
| ♥ 10984 | ||
| ◊ Q10 | ||
| West | ♣ 8762 | East |
| ♠ Q64 | ♠ 9875 | |
| ♥ AQJ | ♥ K5 | |
| ◊ A43 | ◊ J652 | |
| ♣ Q1093 | ♣ AKJ | |
| South | ||
| ♠ AKJ2 | ||
| ♥ 763 | ||
| ◊ K987 | ||
♣ 54 |
The Chinese declarer (West) after checking the Germans' lead agreement (Queen from king, queen, ten, nine asking partner to unblock the jack) won the queen, two, seven with the ace. She can count to eight tricks and believing the lead, can see the ninth. Confidentially played the diamond three, ten, jack and king. Down one and Germany won 10 well earned imps.
At the other table Pony (West) also in three no trump. Got the ten of heart lead won by the king and led spade from dummy toward her hand twice to score the queen of spade for her contract.
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