Vilain1-8 at 2011 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Rob
Vilain

Third
Brian
Doucet

Second
Miles
Maclure

Lead
Erik
Dijkstra

Rob Vilain (Tilburg, NED) finished 1-8 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Vilain lost 8-3 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), droppimg another game, 5-3 to Switzerland's Christof Schwaller where Vilain responded with a 4-3 win over Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Vilain went on to lose 8-2 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Vilain lost 7-5 to Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Vilain lost 6-2 to Hammy McMillan (Stranraer, SCO). Vilain lost 7-1 to Czech Republic's Jiri Snitil. Vilain lost 8-2 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Vilain lost 8-5 to Germany's Andy Kapp in their final qualifying round match.

Vilain earned 2.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 14 of the event schedule, Vilain did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Vilain 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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