CHAMPION: Bottcher Wins 2015 German Masters

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Tom
Appelman

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) won 6-2 over Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final of the German Masters, held January 23 - 25, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 5-1 over Felix Schulze (Hamburg, GER) in the semifinals of the 2015 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany; and won 10-2 over Tomi Rantamaki (Hyvinkaa, FIN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2015 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany;

Bottcher finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE) 5-3, then won 6-3 against Stefan Staehli (Gstaad, SUI) and 6-4 against Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI). Bottcher won 6-3 against David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the German Masters Championship title, Bottcher earned 15.800 world rankings points along with the $8,472CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 17th place overall with 124.849 total points. Bottcher ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 91.220 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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