Kalk/MacAlpine1-4 at 2023 Mixed Doubles Super Series

Ashley Kalk/Craig MacAlpine (Edmonton, AB) finished 1-4 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kalk/MacAlpine lost 10-7 to Therese Westman/Robin Ahlberg (Stockholm, SWE), droppimg another game, 10-3 to Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN) where Kalk/MacAlpine responded with a 11-8 win over Korea's Seojin Park/Hyeon Moon. Kalk/MacAlpine went on to lose 7-4 against Jenny Perret/Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI). Kalk/MacAlpine lost 8-2 to Jaelyn Cotter/Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Kalk/MacAlpine earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kalk/MacAlpine gained -6.312 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 8 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 814thplace overall with 27.938 total points. Kalk/MacAlpine ranks 98th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	13	0	0.458	0-1	0-2	0-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	173	154	150	8.90	8.67	0.23	5.03	4.91	1.77	1.76	0.06

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	89	106	43	1	3-0	12-1	16-9	1.19	0.48	0.35	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	84	48	107	0	1-6	2-8	10-19	0.57	1.27	0.38	0.37

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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