Overview
- Defending champions Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin scored 74.81 after Hase put a hand down on the triple Salchow.
- Georgia's Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava lead with 75.96, leaving a tight gap before the final segment.
- Hungary's Maria Pavlova and Alexei Sviatchenko are third with 73.32, while Germans Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel sit fourth on 65.47.
- Hase acknowledged nerves in the short program, yet the pair remains firmly in contention for the title.
- Germany's ice dance entry changed after Jennifer Janse van Rensburg and Benjamin Steffan withdrew due to an infection, with Charise Matthaei and Max Liebers replacing them.