Sandrine Morand/Romain Borini (Megeve, FRA) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Morand/Borini finished 2-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morand/Borini lost 13-4 to Ildiko Szekeres/Gyeorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN), then responded with a 10-8 win over Daniela Matulova/Milan Moravcik (Bratislava, SVK). Morand/Borini went on to lose 9-2 against Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN). Morand/Borini responded with a 7-5 win over Dace Regza/Ansis Regza (Riga, LAT). Morand/Borini went on to lose 8-6 against Jie Mei/Jingyuan Wang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 15 of the event schedule, Morand/Borini did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Morand/Borini ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.