China Open -- Brad Gushue

St. John's, Canada

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	10.15
PA/G:	6.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) went 6-1 in the 8 team qualifying round. In their opening game, Gushue defeated SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) 9-4, then won 7-3 against Kroy Nernberger (Madison, USA) and 12-4 against Lucien Lottenbach (Luzern, SUI). Gushue won 5-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Gushue won 10-3 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Gushue lost their next game 8-3 to Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Gushue responded with a 7-3 win over Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the China Open, Gushue take home 24.131 world rankings points along with the $32,776CDN prize, remaining in 2th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -27.992 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gushue ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 96.342 points earned so far this season.

--Profile:11003--Week:10--TeamID:121226--Last Year:[0.9|0.8]--Event Count:[3|4]--Rank:[2|2]--Points:[541.318|513.326|net:-27.992]

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	7	2	0	0.778	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	65	66	39	10.15	6.00	4.15	4.77	4.00	2.13	1.50	1.23

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	31	48	4	4	3-0	2-0	12-0	1.55	0.13	0.63	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	34	18	35	4	1-1	3-2	1-6	0.53	1.03	0.59	0.24

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