Barone/Veidemanis1-4 at 2021 WCT Tallinn Mixed Doubles International

Daina Barone/Arnis Veidemanis (Riga, LAT) finished 1-4 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Barone/Veidemanis lost 5-4 to Oona Kauste/Aku Kauste (Hyvinkaa, FIN), droppimg another game, 6-1 to Oihane Unanue/Mikel Unanue (San-Sebastian, ESP). Barone/Veidemanis lost 11-7 to Clancy Grandy/Alexander Magan (Zoetermeer, NED). Barone/Veidemanis lost 1-0 to Zuzana Paulova/Tomas Paul (Prague, CZE) where Barone/Veidemanis responded with a 5-3 win over Ildiko Szekeres/Gyorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN) in their final qualifying round match.

Barone/Veidemanis earned 2.299 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 778th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 2.3 after improving upon their best so far this season. Barone/Veidemanis ranks 79th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.300 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

2023: Kristin Moen Skaslien
Kristin Moen Skaslien, Magnus Nedregotten
Oslo, NOR
2022: Martine Roenning
Martine Roenning, Mathias Braenden
Lillehammer, NOR
2021: Zuzana Paulova
Zuzana Paulova, Tomas Paul
Prague, CZE
2019: Kristin Moen Skaslien
Kristin Moen Skaslien, Magnus Nedregotten
Oppdal, NOR
2018: Jenny Perret
Jenny Perret, Martin Rios
Glarus, SUI
2017: Marie Kaldvee
Marie Kaldvee, Harri Lill
Tallinn, EST

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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