Kauste1-2 at 2017 German Masters

SKIP
Aku
Kauste

Third
Kasper
Hakunti

Second
Pauli
Jaamies

Lead
Janne
Pitko

Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) finished 1-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kauste lost 7-1 to David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO), then responded with a 7-6 win over Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). Kauste went on to lose 9-6 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Kauste earned 0.952 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 51st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 130.930 total points. Kauste ranks 89th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.401 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

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