Bystrov1-2 at 2020 Moscow Classic

SKIP
Aleksandr
Bystrov

Third
Nikita
Ignatkov

Second
Vadim
Shvedov

Lead
Nikolay
Cherednichenko

Aleksandr Bystrov (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bystrov lost 8-3 to Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA), droppimg another game, 4-3 to Maksim Shibilkin (Moscow, RUS) where Bystrov responded with a 10-4 win over Kirill Surovov (Dmitrov, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Bystrov earned 0.543 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Bystrov move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 0.0079999999999996 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 357th overall with 2.502 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Bystrov ranks 359th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.502 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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