Otaegi/Unanue4-3 at Hvidovre Mixed Doubles Cup

Oihane Otaegi/Mikel Unanue (San Sebastian, ESP) finished 4-3 in the 19-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Otaegi/Unanue defeated Jasmin Lander/Henrik Holtermann (Hvidovre, DEN) 9-6, then went on to lose 8-3 against Karolina Jensen/Alexander Qvist (Taarnby, DEN). Otaegi/Unanue responded with a 6-3 win over Kseniya Shevchuk/Wilfrid Coulot (Megeve, FRA). Otaegi/Unanue won 9-8 against Sophie Chang/Liam Goldbeck (Copenhagen, DEN), then won 7-6 against Jensen/Qvist. Otaegi/Unanue went on to lose 8-3 against Angela Romei/Simone Gonin (Pinerolo, ITA). Otaegi/Unanue lost 9-2 to Ying Yang/Jiafeng Tian (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Otaegi/Unanue earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Hvidovre Mixed Doubles Cup. Otaegi/Unanue gained 3 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 13 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 820thplace overall with 43.500 total points. Otaegi/Unanue ranks 41st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 43.500 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

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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