Gulbis3-1 at 2018 Latvia International Challenger

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Raivis
Busmanis

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Anrijs Mikuss
Briezkalns

Games:	4
Record:	3W - 1L
PF/G:	8.62
PA/G:	6.90
Hammer Efficiency:	0.14
Steal Defense:	0.43
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) finished 3-1 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gulbis defeated Wille Makela (Hyvinkaa, FIN) 8-7, then went on to lose 6-1 against Robin Brydone (Perth, SCO). Gulbis responded with a 7-3 win over Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU). Gulbis won 9-4 against Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 1.466 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 297th place overall with 5.019 total points. Gulbis ranks 222nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.056 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

2022: Martins Truksans
Martins Truksans, Janis Klive, Arnis Veidemanis, Sandris Buholcs
Riga, LAT
2021: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Callum Kinnear, Mark Taylor, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2019: Daniel Magnusson
Daniel Magnusson, Robin Ahlberg, Anton Regosa, Sebastian Jones
Karlstad, SWE
2018: Wille Makela
Wille Makela, Kalle Kiiskinen, Teemu Salo, Paavo Kuosmanen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2017: Rasmus Stjerne
Rasmus Stjerne, Johnny Frederiksen, Mikkel Poulsen, Oliver Dupont
Hvidovre, DEN

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