 Rui Wang/Dexin Ba (Harbin, China) wins the WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup, defeating Nadja Grunder/Peter Hartmann (Thurgau, Switzerland) 7-4 at the ISS World Mixed Doubles Curling Tour event hosted by the Kitzbühel Curling Club in Kitzbühel, Austria. Wang/Ba take home the $1,188CDN first place cheque, while Grunder/Hartmann receives $891CDN and 0.000 world ranking points for their second place finish. Starting with hammer, Wang/Ba scored 2 in the first end, then Grunder/Hartmann responded in the second end scoring 3. Wang/Ba scored a single in the third end, added a steal of 2 in the fourth end, steals in the fifth and sixth ends to take 7-3 lead. Grunder/Hartmann scored a single in the seventh end but fell short as Wang/Ba held on for the 7-4 win. In the semifinals, Wang/Ba defeated Zuzana Hajkova/Tomas Paul (Prague, Czech Republic) 6-5 and Grunder/Hartmann defeated Lisa Menard/Ray Baker (Dauphin, Canada) 9-4. Hajkova/Paul won $594CDN, while Menard/Baker won $446CDN for their third and fourth place finishes. In the quarterfinals, Wang/Ba defeated Bernadett Biro/Otto Kalocsay (Budapest, Hungary) 12-4, Grunder/Hartmann defeated Jie Mei/Jingyuan Wang (Harbin, China) 11-5, while Hajkova/Paul defeated Michelle Gribi/Reto Gribi (Biel, Switzerland) 9-8 and Menard/Baker defeated Jenny Perret/Martis Rios (Glarus, Swizerland) 7-5. Perret/Rios, Mei/Wang, Biro/Kaloscsay and Gribi/Gribi earned $260CDN for their quarterfinal finishes. Wang/Ba went 3-0 in the 16 team round-robin pools qualifying round. In their opening game, Wang defeated Eniko Szabo/Balasz Foti (Budapest, Hungary) 16-0, won against Menard/Baker 7-5, and Daniela Matulovina/Milan Moravcik (Bratislava, Slovakia) 12-4 in their final qualifying round match. --- 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.
