Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA) finished 3-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dufour lost 7-4 to Switzerland's Sven Iten, then responded with a 7-2 win over Hungary's Gyeorgy Nagy. Dufour won 6-4 against Bernhard Werthemann (Zug, SUI), then won 9-7 against Thomas Loevold (Oslo, NOR). Dufour went on to lose 4-3 against Stefan Karnusian (St. Moritz, SUI). Dufour lost 7-0 to Ulrik Schmidt (Copenhagen, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week of the event schedule, Dufour did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Dufour ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.