Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA) finished 1-3 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dufour lost 6-2 to Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI), droppimg another game, 6-1 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) where Dufour responded with a 8-6 win over Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Dufour went on to lose 7-5 against Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 3 of the event schedule, Dufour did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 44th to 45th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 23.577 total points. Dufour ranks 418th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.