Otaegi/Unanue Reaches 2023 ISS Mixed Doubles Lodz Quarters

Oihane Otaegi/Mikel Unanue (San Sebastian, ESP) qualified for the 2023 ISS Mixed Doubles Lodz playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-1 against Therese Westman/Robin Ahlberg (Stockholm, SWE). of the 2023 ISS Mixed Doubles Lodz in Lodz, Poland;

Otaegi/Unanue finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Otaegi/Unanue defeated Julie Zelingrova/Ondrej Blaha (Prague, CZE) 10-8, then went on to lose 6-3 against Marta Szeliga-Frynia/Pawel Frynia (Lodz, POL). Otaegi/Unanue responded with a 7-6 win over Westman/Ahlberg. Otaegi/Unanue won 6-5 against Paulina Hajduk/Jan Horacek (Bratislava, SVK), then won 6-2 against Anita Bodnar/Marcin Bodnar (Szczecin, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Otaegi/Unanue earned 9.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the ISS Mixed Doubles Lodz, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 73.844 total points. Otaegi/Unanue ranks 30th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 25.876 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	23	18	0	0.561	3-4	2-1	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	298	251	243	8.42	8.15	0.27	5.34	4.66	1.58	1.75	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	140	160	63	0	4-1	8-4	32-9	1.14	0.45	0.31	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	158	91	180	0	2-9	5-14	13-25	0.58	1.14	0.50	0.39

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Daniela Rupp, Kevin Wunderlin
Zug, SUI
2019: Ildiko Szekeres
Ildiko Szekeres, Gyorgy Nagy
, HUN

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