van Dorp4-8 at 2018 World Mens Curling Championship

Zoetermeer, Netherlands

SKIP
Jaap
van Dorp

Third
Wouter
Gosgens

Second
Laurens
Hoekman

Lead
Carlo
Glasbergen

Games:	12
Record:	4W - 8L
PF/G:	5.51
PA/G:	6.53
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.10

Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) finished 4-8 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, van Dorp lost 7-4 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR), then responded with a 6-4 win over Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, USA). van Dorp went on to lose 5-2 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). van Dorp lost 7-6 to Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). van Dorp lost 8-7 to Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). van Dorp lost 8-3 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where van Dorp responded with a 6-5 win over De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN). van Dorp went on to lose 8-5 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). van Dorp responded with a 8-6 win over Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). van Dorp went on to lose 7-6 against Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). van Dorp responded with a 7-6 win over Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). van Dorp went on to lose 6-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

van Dorp earned 9.664 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. van Dorp move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 8.792 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 45th overall with 172.262 total points on the World Ranking Standings. van Dorp ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 91.312 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

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