CHAMPION: Roenning/Braenden Wins Mixed Doubles Super Series

Martine Roenning/Mathias Braenden (Lillehammer, NOR) won 7-6 over Mary Myketyn-Driscoll/Adam McEachren (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Halifax, held January 4 - 7 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. To advance to the championship game, Roenning/Braenden won 8-4 over Jiyoon Kim/ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the semifinals of the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and won 8-3 over Lauren Wasylkiw/Shane Konings (Stouffville, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia;

Roenning/Braenden finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Roenning/Braenden defeated Sarah Chaytor/David McCurdy (Halifax, NS) 6-3, then won 6-5 against Kristin Moen Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten (Oslo, NOR) and 10-2 against Karlee Burgess/Jacques Gauthier (Winnipeg, MB). Roenning/Braenden won 7-0 against Heather Smith/Owen Purcell (Halifax, NS). Roenning/Braenden went on to lose 8-3 against Oihane Otaegi/Mikel Unanue (San Sebastian, ESP) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Halifax Championship title, Roenning/Braenden earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 147.314 total points. Roenning/Braenden ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 110.376 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	6	0	0.824	6-1	5-1	2-2	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	236	256	142	10.85	6.02	4.83	5.97	4.03	1.82	1.49	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	99	173	18	0	12-0	10-0	29-3	1.75	0.18	0.52	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	137	83	124	0	0-4	5-6	16-19	0.61	0.91	0.64	0.42

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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