Bronze for Calvert at 2019 China Open

SKIP
Braden
Calvert

Third
Kyle
Kurz

Second
Ian
McMillan

Lead
Rob
Gordon

Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) won 9-4 over Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. of the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China; Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) won 9-4 over Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. Calvert lost 6-3 to Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China;

Calvert finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Calvert defeated Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) 8-3, then won 5-2 against Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) and 8-4 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Calvert won 8-3 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Calvert went on to lose 7-3 against Dropkin. Calvert lost 7-4 to Zou where Calvert responded with a 7-3 win over Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the China Open, Calvert earn 19.723 world rankings points and 4250CDN. Calvert move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 1.783 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 222.623 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Calvert ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 150.864 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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