Julie Zelingrova/Vitek Chabicovsky (Prague, CZE) needed tiebreakers to advance to the playoffs, failed to advance to the playoff round, losing in the tiebreaker round, Zelingrova/Chabicovsky finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zelingrova/Chabicovsky lost
9-4 to
Vera Tiuliakova/Sixten Totzek (Fuessen, GER), then responded with a
9-8 win over
Lisenka Bomas/Simon Spits (Zoetermeer, NED). Zelingrova/Chabicovsky won
6-3 against
Jana Soltermann/Felix Luethold (Zug, SUI). Zelingrova/Chabicovsky went on to lose
6-5 against
Emira Abbes/Klaudius Harsch (Fuessen, GER). Zelingrova/Chabicovsky lost
9-6 to
Eilin Kjaerland/Mathias Braenden (Lillehammer, NOR) in their final qualifying round match.
Zelingrova/Chabicovsky earned
8.400 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week of the event schedule, Zelingrova/Chabicovsky did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
total points. Zelingrova/Chabicovsky ranks th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
points earned so far this season.
