Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) lost
5-4 to
Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA) in the Final of the Changan Ford International Curling Elite, held December 5 - 10, 2019 in Xining, China. To advance to the championship game, van Dorp won
7-4 over
Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the semifinals
van Dorp finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, van Dorp defeated
Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) 2-0, then went on to lose
7-5 against
Kim. van Dorp lost
5-3 to
Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). van Dorp lost
10-4 to
Ruohonen where van Dorp responded with a
6-3 win over
Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). van Dorp won
7-5 against
Tanner Horgan (Winnipeg Beach, MB), then won
8-2 against
Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
With their runner-up finish at the Changan Ford International Curling Elite, van Dorp take home
25.060 world rankings points along with the $13,232CDN prize. van Dorp move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 20.372 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 25th overall with
189.727 total points on the
World Ranking Standings. van Dorp ranks 25th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
125.912 points earned so far this season.
