Wiksten/Wiksten1-3 at Hvidovre Mixed Doubles Cup

Natalie Wiksten/Kasper Wiksten (Hvidovre, DEN) finished 1-3 in the 19-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wiksten/Wiksten lost 8-7 to Ying Yang/Jiafeng Tian (Beijing, CHN), droppimg another game, 9-1 to Lotta Immonen/Markus Sipila (Espoo, FIN). Wiksten/Wiksten lost 9-5 to Mona Jensen/Morten Berger (Hvidovre, DEN) where Wiksten/Wiksten responded with a 11-2 win over Caro van Oosterwyck/Jeroen Spruyt (Zemst, BEL) in their final qualifying round match.

Wiksten/Wiksten earned 0.563 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Wiksten/Wiksten gained 0.562 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 13 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 820thplace overall with 7.812 total points. Wiksten/Wiksten ranks 166th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.812 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	5	0	0.667	4-1	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	104	112	71	10.77	6.83	3.94	6.06	3.94	1.78	1.73	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	42	60	14	0	4-0	5-1	6-1	1.43	0.33	0.36	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	62	52	57	0	0-1	5-10	10-4	0.84	0.92	0.50	0.52

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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