Kaldvee/Lill Advances To Estonia Mixed Doubles Nationals Final

Marie Kaldvee/Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST) is set to play Estonia's Karoliine Kaare/Marten Padama in the Final of the Estonia Mixed Doubles Nationals, held February 29 - March 3 in Tallinn, Estonia. To advance to the championship game, Kaldvee/Lill won 7-4 over Kaidi Elmik/Karl Kukner (Tallinn, EST) in the semifinals of the Estonia Mixed Doubles Nationals in Tallinn, Estonia;

Kaldvee/Lill finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kaldvee/Lill defeated Estonia's Hettel Weddro/Siim Rannel 17-4, then won 8-2 against Estonia's Dariia Gudovski/Olev Gudovski and 16-1 against Estonia's Elisabeth Tammer/Mattias Jostov. Kaldvee/Lill won 12-3 against Estonia's Karoliine Kaare/Marten Padama, then won 7-6 against Estonia's Anna Gromova/Erkki Lill and 9-7 against Elmik/Kukner. Kaldvee/Lill won 7-2 against Margit Peebo/Andres Jakobson (Tallinn, EST) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Estonia Mixed Doubles Nationals Championship title, Kaldvee/Lill earned 18.750 world rankings points. Kaldvee/Lill gained 7.125 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 13 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 820thplace overall with 158.125 total points. Kaldvee/Lill ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 158.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	44	18	0	0.710	11-2	4-5	2-2	1-2	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	434	462	299	10.65	6.89	3.76	5.69	4.31	1.87	1.60	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	294	71	0	17-1	24-4	39-10	1.50	0.36	0.41	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	238	168	228	0	3-6	18-16	21-36	0.71	0.96	0.58	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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