Brunner To Play for Bronze at Tallinn Mens International Challenger

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Anthony
Petoud

Second
Romano
Keller-Meier

Lead
Andreas
Gerlach

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) is set to play Switzerland's Andrin Schnider in the Bronze Medal game at the Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia. of the Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia; Brunner lost 6-5 to Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia; and won 8-0 over Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in the quarterfinals. of the Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia;

Brunner finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner defeated Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR) 12-1, then won 6-5 against Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) and 6-4 against Manuel Jermann (Basel, SUI). Brunner won 8-6 against David Sik (Prague, CZE), then won 9-4 against Westerberg in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Tallinn Mens International Challenger, Brunner earn 10.625 world rankings points and 575CDN. Brunner move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of -5.969 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 161.656 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Brunner ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 73.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	9-5	7-4	4-1	3-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	643	476	404	7.40	6.28	1.12	4.53	4.18	1.64	1.50	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	318	338	100	39	10-1	23-2	58-14	1.06	0.31	0.33	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	325	138	304	44	2-3	7-16	26-72	0.42	0.94	0.52	0.28

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Pollanen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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