Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak finished 1-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak lost 7-6 to Alexey Tselousov (Moscow, RUS), then responded with a 9-4 win over Lithuania's Tadas Vyskupaitis. Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak went on to lose 7-3 against Markku Uusipaavalniemi (Helsinki, FIN). Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak lost 7-3 to Austria's Andreas Unterberger. Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak lost 10-9 to Spain's Antonio De Mollinedo. Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak lost 8-7 to Hungary's Gyeorgy Nagy. Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak lost 11-4 to Belarus's Ihar Platonov in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 17 of the event schedule, Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 573rd place on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Slovakia's Pavol Pitonak ranks 460th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.