 Irantzu Garcia/Brendan Bottcher (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP/Edmonton, CAN) wins the CCT Dutch Masters Mixed Doubles, defeating Oihane Otaegi/Mikel Unanue (San Sebastian, ESP) 4-3. Starting with hammer, Garcia/Bottcher scored 2 in the first end, then forced Otaegi/Unanue to a single in the second end. After a blank end, Garcia/Bottcher scored a single the fourth end to extend the lead to 3-1, then forced Otaegi/Unanue to a single in the fifth end. Garcia/Bottcher scored a single in the sixth end, then forced Otaegi/Unanue to a single in the seventh end holding on for the 4-3 win. In the semifinals, Garcia/Bottcher defeated Michele Jaeggi/Sven Michel (Bern, SUI) 5-3 and Otaegi/Unanue defeated Kristin Moen Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten (Oslo, NOR) 8-6. In the quarterfinals, Jaeggi/Michel defeated Anastasia Bryzgalova/Alexander Krushelnitskiy (St. Petersburg, RUS) 8-6 and Skaslien/Nedregotten defeated Ildiko Szekeres/Gyeorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN) 8-3. Garcia/Bottcher went 4-0 in the 15 team round-robin pools qualifying round. In their opening game, Garcia/Bottcher defeated Szekeres/Nagy 6-3, then won against Jayne Stirling/Fraser Kingan (Aberdeen, SCO) 9-1, then won against Santa Blumberga/Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) 8-7, then won against Clare Moores/Lance Wheeler (Denver, CO) 8-6 in their final qualifying round match. ----------------------- ISS Ice, Sports & Solar is title sponsor of the ISS WORLD MIXED DOUBLES TOUR. They are supplying excellence in building 1st class Ice Facilities around the world since 1981. The German based company has also supplied the Curling Ice for the 2016 Men's World in Basel and the 2014 Mixed Doubles and Seniors in Dumfries. In 2017 they built the test Curling Sheets in the Water Cube Beijing for the 2022 Olympics. Find out more on https://iss4u.de/?lang=en. |
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