Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN) won
7-4 over
Nadja Grunder/Peter Hartmann (Thurgau, SUI) in the Final of the WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup, held October 19 - 22, 2017 in Kitzbuehel, Austria. To advance to the championship game, Wang/Ba won
6-5 over
Zuzana Hajkova/Tomas Paul (Prague, CZE) in the semifinals of the 2017 WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup in Kitzbuehel, Austria; and won
12-4 over
Bernadett Biro/Otto Kalocsay (Budapest, HUN) in the quarterfinals.
Wang/Ba finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wang/Ba defeated
Eniko Szabo/Balazs Foti (Budapest, HUN) 16-0, then won
7-5 against
Lisa Menard/Ray Baker (Dauphin, MB) and
12-4 against
Daniela Matulova/Milan Moravcik (Bratislava, SVK) in their final qualifying round match.
For winning the WCT Austrian Mixed Doubles Cup Championship title, Wang/Ba earned
0.000 world rankings points along with the $1,188CDN first prize cheque. For week 11 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.
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