Frederiksen/Valek2-5 at 2024 Czechia Mixed Doubles National Championship

Karolina Frederiksen/Tomas Valek (Prague, CZE) finished 2-5 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Frederiksen/Valek lost 8-5 to Veronika Vasakova/Ondrej Bodlak Jr. (Prague, CZE), then responded with a 6-5 win over Klara Cihlarova/Tomas Macek (Prague, CZE). Frederiksen/Valek went on to lose 5-3 against Zuzana Paulova/Tomas Paul (Prague, CZE). Frederiksen/Valek lost 8-1 to Petra Klimova/Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) where Frederiksen/Valek responded with a 7-6 win over Kristyna Farkova/David Jakl (Prague, CZE). Frederiksen/Valek went on to lose 7-2 against Julie Zelingrova/Vitek Chabicovsky (Prague, CZE). Frederiksen/Valek lost 7-6 to Sofie Krupickova/Ondrej Blaha (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Frederiksen/Valek earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Frederiksen/Valek move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 1.126 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 806th overall with 4.659 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Frederiksen/Valek ranks 190th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.659 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	11	0	0.476	4-0	4-4	3-4	1-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	135	120	111	8.89	8.22	0.67	4.89	5.04	1.82	1.63	0.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	65	83	27	0	5-0	6-0	13-1	1.28	0.42	0.37	0.40

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	70	37	84	1	1-4	1-9	5-12	0.53	1.20	0.40	0.39

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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