Bystrov2-2 at Prague Classic

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

SKIP
Aleksandr
Bystrov

Third
Sergey
Morozov

Second
Vadim
Shvedov

Lead
Konstantin
Manasevich

Aleksandr Bystrov (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) finished 2-2 in the 22 team Prague Classic qualifying round, held November 7 - 10 in , . In their opening game, Bystrov defeated Karel Kubeska (Prague, CZE) 9-4, then went on to lose 8-2 against Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL). Bystrov lost 6-3 to Luke Carson (Stirling, SCO) where Bystrov responded with a 4-3 win over Karel Klima (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Bystrov earned 1.959 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 46 spots the World Ranking Standings into 307th place overall with 4.949 total points. Bystrov ranks 276th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.959 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	2	0	0.500	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
	30	18	21	6.00	7.00	-1.00	3.67	4.33	1.64	1.62	2.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	15	12	7	3	1-0	0-1	1-0	0.80	0.47	0.17	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	15	6	14	3	0-1	0-0	2-3	0.40	0.93	0.50	0.27

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