David Murdoch (Lockerbie, SCO) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, failed to advance to the playoff round, losing in the tiebreaker round, Murdoch finished 5-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murdoch defeated
Joel Retornaz (Cortina, ITA) 6-5, then won
6-5 against
Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Murdoch went on to lose
10-6 against
Germany's Christopher Bartsch. Murdoch responded with a
8-7 win over
Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Murdoch went on to lose
8-4 against
Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Murdoch lost
5-2 to
Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) where Murdoch responded with a
8-3 win over
Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT). Murdoch went on to lose
9-7 against
Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Murdoch responded with a
9-3 win over
Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.
Murdoch earned
10.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 17 of the event schedule, Murdoch did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
total points. Murdoch ranks th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
points earned so far this season.
