van Dorp3-4 at China Open

Zoetermeer, Netherlands

Fourth
Wouter
Gosgens

SKIP
Jaap
van Dorp

Second
Laurens
Hoekman

Lead
Carlo
Glasbergen

Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) finished 3-4 in the 8 team China Open qualifying round, held December 13 - 17 in , . In their opening game, van Dorp defeated Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) 6-5, then went on to lose 8-5 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). van Dorp lost 7-2 to Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). van Dorp lost 8-3 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) where van Dorp responded with a 9-6 win over Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI). van Dorp won 6-4 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). van Dorp went on to lose 7-2 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

van Dorp earned 5.221 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. van Dorp gained -7.542 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 26thplace overall with 182.185 total points. van Dorp ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 131.133 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	3	4	0	0.429	3-2	0-2	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	55	33	45	6.00	8.18	-2.18	3.82	5.64	1.57	1.45	0.55

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	33	33	13	2	0-0	4-0	4-3	1.00	0.39	0.26	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	22	0	32	1	0-1	0-2	0-4	0.00	1.45	0.67	0.00

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