Gushue6-1 at 2018 China Open

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) 9-4, then won 7-3 against Kroy Nernberger (Madison, USA) and 12-4 against Lucien Lottenbach (Luzern, SUI). Gushue won 5-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 10-3 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Gushue went on to lose 8-3 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Gushue responded with a 7-3 win over Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the China Open, Gushue take home 24.131 world rankings points along with the $32,776CDN prize, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -27.992 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gushue ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 96.342 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
Winnipeg, CAN

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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