CHAMPION: Ribotta Wins Men Prague Open

Fourth
Alberto
Pimpini

SKIP
Fabio
Ribotta

Second
Simone
Gonin

Lead
Fabrizio
Gallo

Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA) won 8-2 over Marc Pfister (Manilla, PHI) in the Final of the Men Prague Open, held October 5 - 8 in Prague, Czechia. To advance to the championship game, Ribotta won 7-5 over Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the semifinals of the Men Prague Open in Prague, Czechia; and won 5-4 over Rob Retchless (Preston, ENG) in the quarterfinals. of the Men Prague Open in Prague, Czechia;

Ribotta finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ribotta lost 9-7 to Pfister, then responded with a 11-1 win over Tomas Paul (Prague, CZE). Ribotta won 8-3 against PaweÅ Hertman (Lodz, POL), then won 9-4 against Jaroslav Vedral (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Men Prague Open Championship title, Ribotta earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $2,165CDN first prize cheque. For week 11 of the event schedule, Ribotta did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ribotta 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

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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