MumbaiIndia’s Under-31 team won the bronze medal in the Teams Event at the 9th World Youth Transnational Bridge Championships in Hefei, China, finishing third in the eight-team final round robin with 82.34 Victory Points. The team — Anshul Bhatt, Sagnik Roy, Sayantan Kushari, Shubham Acharya, Surajit Bar and Vidhya Patel — was captained and coached by Kaustubh Bendre. Shubham partnered Vidhya Patel, who is from Raibidpura, a Madhya Pradesh village known for producing bridge players. The final was a round robin on August 5, with each team playing a seven-board match against every other finalist. Anshul runs a school bridge club and BridgeBlitz boot camps that have produced other India age-group players; a BridgeBlitz-trained team reached the semifinals of the 2025 World Youth Teams Championships.