Sabine Auken

Sabine Auken, June 2014

Sabine Auken née Zenkel (born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 4th by placing points that do not decay over time.^[1]

She was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. As of 2007 she resides in Charlottenlund, Denmark. She and Jens Auken, a Danish bridge player, have two children, Jens Christian (b. 1995) and Maximilian (b. 1999).^[2] Maximillian has had success playing basketball, making the U14, U15 and U16 Danish national teams.

Zenkel and the American professional player Ron Andersen traveled the world as a partnership during 1991–1992, based in Chicago.^[3] They also wrote a book, Preempts from A to Z (1993; 2nd, 1996).

Books

• Preempts from A to Z, Ron Andersen and Sabine Zenkel (Stamford, CT: Magnus Books, 1993), 290 pp., LCCN 98-79256
• I Love This Game, Auken and Mark Horton, editor (Master Point Press, 2006), 207 pp., OCLC 62346636

Bridge accomplishments

Wins

• Venice Cup (2) 1995, 2001 ^[4]
• Buffett Cup (1) 2008
• North American Bridge Championships (13)
  • Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (2) 1989, 1993 ^[5]
  • Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2014 ^[6]
  • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 1990, 2011 ^[7]
  • Vanderbilt (1) 2013 ^[8]
  • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 2005, 2007, 2011 ^[9]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 2005, 2009, 2010 ^[10]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2009 ^[11]

Runners-up

• Venice Cup (3) 1993, 2005, 2007 ^[4]
• World Mixed Pairs (1) 1994
• Buffett Cup (2) 2006, 2010
• North American Bridge Championships
  • Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1993 ^[12]
  • Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2005 ^[13]
  • Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1992 ^[5]
  • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2002 ^[10]
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1994 ^[11]
  • Reisinger (1) 2012 ^[14]

References

1. "Women World Grand Masters". WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-08.
2. "Sabine Auken". Biographies. WBF. [2007]. Retrieved 2014-11-08.
3. "Bridge: How a small deception earned a Chicago partnership an extra trick and a major victory". Alan Truscott. The New York Times. January 18, 1992. Page 17.
4. World Team Championship Winners
5. "Smith Women's Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-11-29. p. 7. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
6. "Jacoby Open Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 9. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
7. "Machlin Swiss Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-29. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
8. "Vanderbilt Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-24. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
9. "Wagar Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 10. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
10. "Women's BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
11. "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
12. "Rockwell Mixed Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-25. p. 8. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
13. "Blue Ribbon Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
14. "Reisinger Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-18.

External links

• "International record for Sabine Auken". World Bridge Federation.
  
• Women Stars at the World Bridge Federation – with biography
• Sabine Zenkel at Library of Congress Authorities, with 1 catalogue records
• Sabine Auken at LC Authorities (no records yet; see WorldCat)