Sofia Tkach/Aleksei Sotnikov (Sochi, RUS) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tkach/Sotnikov lost 7-3 to Maria Komarova/Daniil Goryachev (St. Petersburg, RUS), droppimg another game, 8-4 to Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN) where Tkach/Sotnikov responded with a 8-2 win over Nadezhda Kulikova/Oleg Kapustyanov (Moscow, RUS). Tkach/Sotnikov went on to lose 9-6 against Daria Steksova/Mikhail Vaskov (Dmitrov, RUS). Tkach/Sotnikov responded with a 10-6 win over Elizaveta Trukhina/Andrey Dudov (Irkutsk, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 14 of the event schedule, Tkach/Sotnikov did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Tkach/Sotnikov ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.