Bronze for Ronning/Braenden at 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	11.02
PA/G:	7.55
Hammer Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Martine Ronning/Mathias Braenden (Lillehammer, NOR) won 8-6 over Oihane Unanue/Mikel Unanue (San-Sebastian, ESP) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia. of the 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia; Martine Ronning/Mathias Braenden (Lillehammer, NOR) won 8-6 over Oihane Unanue/Mikel Unanue (San-Sebastian, ESP) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia. Ronning/Braenden lost 6-5 to Dorottya Palancsa/Zsolt Kiss (Budapest, HUN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia; and won 10-2 over Jana Matulova/Milan Moravcik (Bratislava, SVK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup in Bratislava, Slovakia;

Ronning/Braenden finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ronning/Braenden lost 10-2 to Adela Walczak/Andrzej Augustyniak (Lodz, POL), then responded with a 13-6 win over Slavka Makovnikova/Juraj Gallo (Bratislava, SVK). Ronning/Braenden won 7-4 against Marie Kaldvee/Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST), then won 9-3 against Jana Jelinkova/ Mihota (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the HERACLES Mixed Doubles Slovakia Cup, Ronning/Braenden earn 15.263 world rankings points and 576CDN, remaining in 778th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 15.264 after improving upon their best so far this season. Ronning/Braenden ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.022 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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