Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) lost
7-5 to
Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Walstad won
5-3 over
Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2018 Swiss Cup Basel in Basel, Switzerland; and won
3-1 over
Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Swiss Cup Basel in Basel, Switzerland;
Walstad finished 5-1 in the 32 team
Swiss Cup Basel qualifying round, held October 4 - 7, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Walstad defeated
Noe Traub (Basel, SUI) 6-4, then went on to lose
7-3 against
Jan Hess (Zug, SUI). Walstad responded with a
7-5 win over
Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Walstad won
5-3 against
Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), then won
5-1 against
Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) and
6-4 against
David Sik (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.
With their runner-up finish at the Swiss Cup Basel, Walstad take home
39.478 world rankings points along with the $9,143CDN prize. Walstad move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 16.791 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 10th overall with
319.321 total points on the
World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 4th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
115.135 points earned so far this season.
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