Michel Runner-Up at 2015 German Masters

Adelboden, Switzerland

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Florian
Meister

Second
Simon
Gempeler

Lead
Stefan
Meienberg

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	7.25
PA/G:	5.29
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.04
Force Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Efficiency:	0.11

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) lost 6-2 to Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the German Masters, held January 23 - 25, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany. To advance to the championship game, Michel won 7-4 over Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE) in the semifinals of the 2015 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany; and won 6-3 over Andy Kapp (Fuessen, GER) in the quarterfinals. of the 2015 German Masters in Hamburg, Germany;

Michel finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel defeated Torkil Svensgaard (Hvidovre, DEN) 6-2, then won 7-6 against Thomas Loevold (Oslo, NOR) and 5-4 against Jialiang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Michel won 4-2 against Felix Schulze (Hamburg, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the German Masters, Michel take home 11.060 world rankings points along with the $4,236CDN prize, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 6.06 after improving upon their best so far this season. Michel ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 105.780 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

2017: Steffen Walstad
Oslo, NOR
2016: David Murdoch
Stirling, SCO
2015: Brendan Bottcher
Edmonton, AB
2014: Sven Michel
Adelboden, SUI

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