de Cruz Runner-Up at 2014 German Masters

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Second
Dominik
Maerki

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter de Cruz (Geneva, SUI) lost 7-4 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final of the German Masters, held January 24 - 26, 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. To advance to the championship game, de Cruz won 5-3 over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2014 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany; and won 6-5 over Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR) in the quarterfinals.

de Cruz finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, de Cruz defeated Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) 6-5, then went on to lose 5-4 against Liu. de Cruz responded with a 5-3 win over Konstantin Kampf (Fuessen, GER). de Cruz went on to lose 9-5 against Brady Clark (Lynnwood, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the German Masters, de Cruz take home 11.480 world rankings points along with the $4,562CDN prize, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 115.205 total points. de Cruz ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.980 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	46	32	0	0.590	25-15	13-16	11-10	4-1	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	644	439	383	6.82	5.95	0.87	4.30	3.84	1.58	1.55	1.86

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	334	349	72	72	10-0	17-2	73-15	1.04	0.22	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	310	90	311	48	2-2	2-20	10-71	0.29	1.00	0.52	0.22

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