2017 Ondrej Nepela Trophy Pairs SP

[puremagic]

21- 23 Sep 2017
Ondrej Nepela Ice Rink
Bratislava, Slovakia

Thursday, 21 September 2017, 19:15 UTC/GMT +2 hours

Times in Other Places
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcl...4&p7=352&p8=101&p9=31&p10=136&p11=286&p12=256

Live stream

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• Starting order/Results page
• Detailed Results & Protocols
• Schedule

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START ORDER​

StN.	Name		Nation
	Warm-Up Group 1​
1	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT		RUS
2	Jessica PFUND / Joshua SANTILLAN		USA
3	Alisa EFIMOVA / Alexander KOROVIN		RUS
	Warm-Up Group 2​
4	Kristina ASTAKHOVA / Alexei ROGONOV		RUS
5	Natasha PURICH / Davin PORTZ		CAN
6	Erika SMITH / AJ REISS		USA

Entries:​

No.	Name		Nation
1	Natasha PURICH / Davin PORTZ SP: "Angel" by Sarah MacLachlan FS: Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen		CAN
2	Kristina ASTAKHOVA / Alexei ROGONOV SP: Mozart, Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff; choreo by Sergei Britkov LP: La La Land; choreo by Sergei Britkov		RUS
3	Alisa EFIMOVA / Alexander KOROVIN SP: Russian folk music FS: La Strada soundtrack by Nino Rota		RUS
4	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT SP: "Summer of '42;" choreo by Igor Chinyaev FS: "Too Close", "I Love You Much Too Much", and "Sleeping Beauty;" choreo by Giuseppe Arena		RUS
5	Jessica PFUND / Joshua SANTILLAN SP: You Raise Me Up, performed by Josh Groban; choreo by Ilona Melnichenko FS: Gone with the Wind soundtrack; choreo by Phillip Mills		USA
6	Erika SMITH / AJ REISS		USA

 

[puremagic]

Starting order:

Warm-Up Group 1
Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT
Jessica PFUND / Joshua SANTILLAN
Alisa EFIMOVA / Alexander KOROVIN

Warm-Up Group 2
Kristina ASTAKHOVA / Alexei ROGONOV
Natasha PURICH / Davin PORTZ
Erika SMITH / AJ REISS

 

[3T3T]

A very small field, with only 6 skaters from 3 countries. Will it count for ranking points? I guess it will be a routine victory for Z/E, although 2 competitions in 2 weeks is a lot.

 

[The Finn]

A very small field, with only 6 skaters from 3 countries. Will it count for ranking points?

It will count. The minimum number of entries is five pairs from at least three countries.

 

[LadyB]

Second gold for Mozer Team? All-Russian podium? Bring it on!

 

[tulosai]

Anyone else here?

 

[TMC]

Anyone else here?

:hap85:

 

[tulosai]

To my own shock I'm really loving these two this year...

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:hap85:

:yes2:

 

[coldblueeyes]

Z/E have pretty much everything to be the almost best in the world, but I feel like there's always something missing. They do look good together, and their pair elements are very good.

 

[tulosai]

I wish my hair looked that good in a ponytail...

 

[tulosai]

Z/E have pretty much everything to be the almost best in the world, but I feel like there's always something missing. They do look good together, and their pair elements are very good.

I felt this very much last year but not so much now. They're still a little try hard or affected or something but I do see a connection now that was totally absent before.

 

[coldblueeyes]

P/S have good SBS jumps for being from the US, but they lose levels in the pair elements. The throw looked good right until the landing. Not too bad, though.

 

[nimi]

Oh, only six pairs? And I missed the first two?

 

[coldblueeyes]

I felt this very much last year but not so much now. They're still a little try hard or affected or something but I do see a connection now that was totally absent before.

I don't really have a problem with the artistic aspect of their skating, to be honest. But their elements are good, clean, and that's it. In the past I thought they would go for the 3A, but now they just settled on these elements and that's it. I wish they tried to aim higher.

 

[tulosai]

These two are a bit juniorish but what fantastic musicality and pairs elements. My eye is on them for sure.

 

[nimi]

Yay! Good job! (aside from the 3S)

I like these two!

 

[coldblueeyes]

Alisa had some problems with her salchow, but the program looks good. It's fun and light.

 

[nimi]

btw, Alisa's sister Liubov will make her debut as a pair skater later on in the season (I think Nov?) representing Finland

ETA: ooops sorry they're not sisters, my bad!
too much skating today, my brain is obviously a mush

 

[coldblueeyes]

btw, Alisa's sister Liubov will make her debut as a pair skater later on in the season (I think Nov?) representing Finland

Really?

 

[tulosai]

I realllly can't with these music cuts. It's a shame since I love these two so much.