Smith6-3 at 2018 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith defeated Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) 7-3, then won 7-3 against Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuhel, AUT) and 5-3 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Smith went on to lose 6-4 against Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). Smith responded with a 8-1 win over David Misun (Martin, SVK). Smith went on to lose 5-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Smith responded with a 8-7 win over Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Smith went on to lose 9-4 against Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). Smith responded with a 5-2 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, Smith take home 47.683 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 9th place overall with 426.945 total points. Smith ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 109.754 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

Sweden's Niklas Edin (photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin the Olympic season in Baden, Switzerland, at the Baden Masters.

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