Lottenbach1-6 at 2018 China Open

Luzern, Switzerland

SKIP
Lucien
Lottenbach

Third
Rainer
Kobler

Second
Patrick
AbÃ¤cherli

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Games:	7
Record:	1W - 6L
PF/G:	5.66
PA/G:	8.30
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Lucien Lottenbach (Luzern, SUI) finished 1-6 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Lottenbach defeated Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) 5-2, then went on to lose 7-6 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Lottenbach lost 12-4 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Lottenbach lost 5-2 to Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Lottenbach lost 7-6 to SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). Lottenbach lost 6-3 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Lottenbach lost 5-4 to Kroy Nernberger (Madison, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Lottenbach earned 1.645 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Lottenbach move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of -0.274 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 100th overall with 34.973 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Lottenbach ranks 75th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.626 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

2019: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Kijeong Lee, Hak Kyun Kim, Kibok Lee
Uiseong, KOR
2018: Sergei Glukhov
Sergei Glukhov, Artur Ali, Dmitry Mironov, Anton Kalalb
Sochi, RUS
2013: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
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