Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN) won
7-6 over
Michele Jaeggi/Mario Freiberger (Bern, SUI) in the Final of the Mixed Doubles Curling Challenge, held December 16 - 18, 2016 in Urdorf, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Wang/Ba won
8-5 over
Switzerland's Jenny Perret/Martin Rios in the semifinals of the 2016 Mixed Doubles Curling Challenge in Urdorf, Switzerland; and won
6-1 over
Xindi Jiang/Dongxu Jiang (Harbin, CHN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Mixed Doubles Curling Challenge in Urdorf, Switzerland;
Wang/Ba finished 4-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wang/Ba defeated
Ursi Hegner/Felix Attinger (Uzwil, SUI) 8-2, then went on to lose
9-5 against
Jaeggi/Freiberger. Wang/Ba responded with a
8-4 win over
CLaudia Fischer/Christian Roth (Kitzbuhel, AUT). Wang/Ba won
8-4 against
Marie Turmann/Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST), then won
9-7 against
Julia Portunova/Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
. For week 18 of the event schedule, Wang/Ba did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
total points. Wang/Ba ranks th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
points earned so far this season.
