Smith1-3 at 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

Fourth
Austin
Weber

SKIP
Tucker
Smith

Second
Mike
Johnson

Lead
Derek
Frenholz

Tucker Smith (Sioux Falls, SD) finished 1-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith lost 12-0 to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN), droppimg another game, 7-2 to Jed Brundidge (Chaska, MN) where Smith responded with a 8-7 win over Carson McMullin (Eau Claire, WI). Smith went on to lose 7-4 against Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) in their final qualifying round match.

Smith earned 0.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 9 of the event schedule, Smith did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Smith ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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