 Anastasia Bryzgalova/Alexander Krushelnitskiy (St Petersburg, Russia) wins the International Mixed Doubles Trophy Aarau, defeating Jenny Perret/Martin Rios (Glarus, Switzerland) 6-5 at the Curling Club Aarau in Aarau, Switzerland. Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy take home the $3,306CDN first place cheque, while Perret/Rios receives $2,035CDN for their second place finish. Starting with hammer, Perret/Rios scored 2 in the first end, Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy responded in the second end scoring 2. then added steals in the third and fourth ends. Perret/Rios scored a single in the fifth end to trail 4-3, then forced Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy to a single in the sixth end. Perret/Rios scored 2 in the seventh end to tie the game with Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy scoring a single in the eighth end for the 6-5 win. Daniela Rupp/Kevin Wunderlin (Zug, Switzerland) defeated Marie Turmann/Harri Lill (Tallinn, Estonia) 5-3 in the Bronze Medal game. Rupp/Wunderlin won $1,272CDN, while Turmann/Lill won $763CDN for their finishes. In the semifinals, Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy defeated Rupp/Wunderlin (Zug, Switzerland) 6-3 and Perret/Rios defeated Turmann/Lill (Tallinn, Estonia) 9-4. In the quarterfinals, Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy defeated Alina Paetz/Sven Michel (Bern, Switzerland) 8-3, Perret/Rios defeated Maria Komarova/Daniil Goryachev (St. Petersburg, Russia) 4-3, while Turmann/Lill defeated Oihane Otaegi/Mikel Unanue (San Sebastian, Spain) 8-3 and Rupp/Wunderlin defeated Melanie Barbezat/Matthias Perret (Biel, Switzerland) 10-3. Komarova/Goryachev, Otaegi/Unanue, Paetz/Michel and Barbezat/Perret earned $381CDN along with 0.000 ranking points for their quarterfinal finishes. Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy went 5-0 in the 18 team round-robin pools qualifying round. In their opening game, Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy defeated Rupp/Wunderlin 9-4, won against Daniela Matulova/Milan Moravcik (Bratislava, Slovakia) 7-4, and against Eliska Srnska/Krystof Tabery (Prague, Czech Republic) 8-1. Bryzgalova/Krushelnitskiy then won against Otaegi/Unanue 6-3, and finished the preliminary round with a 7-6 win against Michelle Gribi/Reto Gribi (Biel, Switzerland). ----------------------- ISS Ice, Sports & Solar is title sponsor of the ISS WORLD MIXED DOUBLES TOUR. They are supplying excellence in building 1st class Ice Facilities around the world since 1981. The German based company has also supplied the Curling Ice for the 2016 Men's World in Basel and the 2014 Mixed Doubles and Seniors in Dumfries. In 2017 they built the test Curling Sheets in the Water Cube Beijing for the 2022 Olympics. Find out more on https://iss4u.de/?lang=en. |
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A five at the opening end of their first-ever match together in a major international competition sent Katie McMillan and Angus Bryce on their way to a dominant victory over the USA at the ACE & Company World Mixed Doubles Championships in Geneva.
