Giovanella2-3 at Prague Classic

Cembra, Italy

SKIP
Mattia
Giovanella

Third
Daniele
Ferrazza

Second
Andrea
Pilzer

Lead
Nicola
Gottardi

Mattia Giovanella (Cembra, ITA) finished 2-3 in the 22 team Prague Classic qualifying round, held November 7 - 10 in , . In their opening game, Giovanella defeated Gabor Bor Zelinka (Ljubljana, SLO) 10-3, then went on to lose 7-3 against Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Giovanella lost 8-3 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Giovanella lost 8-3 to Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER) where Giovanella responded with a 9-1 win over Dominik Svarc (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Giovanella earned 1.959 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 221st place overall with 10.901 total points. Giovanella ranks 216th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.959 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	3	0	0.400	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	33	28	27	8.48	8.18	0.30	4.55	3.94	1.87	2.08	1.52

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	13	17	5	1	1-0	1-1	3-0	1.31	0.38	0.42	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	20	11	22	4	1-2	0-1	1-4	0.55	1.10	0.30	0.30

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