Smith Runner-Up at 2017 German Masters

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Kyle Smith (Stirling, SCO) lost 6-3 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) in the Final of the German Masters, held January 19 - 22, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. To advance to the championship game, Smith won 4-2 over Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) in the semifinals of the 2017 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany; and won 6-4 over Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany;

Smith finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith defeated Michael Brunner (Gstaad, SUI) 6-4, then won 7-2 against Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN) and 7-4 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the German Masters, Smith take home 34.903 world rankings points along with the $4,991CDN prize. Smith move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 30.748 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 404.321 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Smith ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 275.822 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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