Franke/Buettner2-2 at 2023 Mixed Doubles Prague Open

Julia Franke/Andy Buettner (Geising, GER) finished 2-2 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Franke/Buettner lost 9-3 to Linda Klimova/Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE), then responded with a 14-3 win over Jana Jelinkova/Ondrej Mihola (Prague, CZE). Franke/Buettner went on to lose 10-9 against Emira Abbes/Klaudius Harsch (Fuessen, GER). Franke/Buettner responded with a 8-3 win over Veronika Neznalova/Matej Neznal (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Franke/Buettner 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. Franke/Buettner ranks 59th 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	5	5	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	74	75	65	10.14	8.78	1.35	4.86	5.14	2.08	1.71	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	37	52	17	0	3-0	7-1	5-2	1.41	0.46	0.41	0.35

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	37	23	48	0	1-4	1-2	6-5	0.62	1.30	0.56	0.32

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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