Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay2-2 at 2023 Mixed Doubles Prague Open

Vera Kalocsai-van Dorp/Otto Kalocsay (Budapest, HUN) finished 2-2 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay defeated Ronja Meissner/Jari Butzmann (Geising, GER) 9-3, then went on to lose 8-4 against Zuzana Paulova/Tomas Paul (Prague, CZE). Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay lost 8-6 to Adela Walczak/Andrzej Augustyniak (Lodz, POL) where Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay responded with a 11-3 win over Klara Cihlarova/Tomas Macek (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.126 after improving upon their best so far this season. Kalocsai-van Dorp/Kalocsay ranks 60th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.126 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	2	2	0	0.500	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	29	30	22	10.34	7.59	2.76	4.83	4.83	2.14	1.57	0.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	14	21	8	1	3-0	2-1	0-1	1.50	0.57	0.38	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	15	9	14	0	0-0	1-2	1-1	0.60	0.93	0.67	0.40

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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