Ulsrud5-2 at 2018 China Open

Oslo, Norway

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Torger
Nergaard

Second
Christoffer
Svae

Lead
Haavard Vad
Petersson

Games:	9
Record:	6W - 3L
PF/G:	8.52
PA/G:	4.75
Hammer Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Defense:	0.28
Force Efficiency:	0.73
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud lost 6-1 to Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS), then responded with a 9-2 win over Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN). Ulsrud won 8-3 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Ulsrud went on to lose 5-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Ulsrud responded with a 7-2 win over Kroy Nernberger (Madison, USA). Ulsrud won 6-3 against Lucien Lottenbach (Luzern, SUI), then won 7-2 against SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Ulsrud earned 18.647 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the China Open. Ulsrud move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -2.974 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 254.271 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ulsrud ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 81.305 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

2019: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Kijeong Lee, Hak Kyun Kim, Kibok Lee
Uiseong, KOR
2018: Sergei Glukhov
Sergei Glukhov, Artur Ali, Dmitry Mironov, Anton Kalalb
Sochi, RUS
2013: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, CAN

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