CHAMPION: Skaslien/Nedregotten Wins 2019 WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup

Kristin Moen Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten (Oppdal, NOR) won 11-7 over Dorottya Palancsa/Zsolt Kiss (Budapest, HUN) in the Final of the WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup, held October 17 - 20, 2019 in Kitzbuehel, Austria. To advance to the championship game, Skaslien/Nedregotten won 8-6 over Michele Jaeggi/Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2019 WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup in Kitzbuehel, Austria; and won 11-4 over Constanze Ocker/Uli Kapp (Fuessen, GER) in the quarterfinals.

Skaslien/Nedregotten finished 4-0 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Skaslien/Nedregotten defeated Marijke Reitsma/Martin Seiwald (Kitzbuehel, AUT) 11-4, then won 7-2 against Sweden's Tilde Vermelin/Fabian Wingfors and 7-6 against Jaeggi/Pfister. Skaslien/Nedregotten won 8-5 against Switzerland's Stephanie Wild/Thomas Kupper in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup Championship title, Skaslien/Nedregotten earned 35.170 world rankings points along with the $1,770CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 668th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 321.950 total points. Skaslien/Nedregotten ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 89.812 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Julie Zelingrova
Julie Zelingrova, Vitek Chabicovsky
Prague, CZE
2021: Daniela Rupp
Daniela Rupp, Kevin Wunderlin
Zug, SUI
2019: Kristin Moen Skaslien
Kristin Moen Skaslien, Magnus Nedregotten
Oppdal, NOR
2018: Emilie Desjardins
Emilie Desjardins, Robert Desjardins
Chicoutimi, QC
2017: Rui Wang
Rui Wang, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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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