Williams/Straub1-3 at 2024 MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Motus Financial

Vanessa Williams/Tom Straub (Nashville, TN, TN) finished 1-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Williams/Straub lost 6-5 to Clare Moores/Lance Wheeler (Denver, CO), droppimg another game, 8-2 to Becca Wood/Tony Kot (Denver, CO) where Williams/Straub responded with a 11-6 win over Eleftheria Loughlin/Nick Koch (Prairie Grove, IL). Williams/Straub went on to lose 7-3 against Moores/Wheeler in their final qualifying round match.

Williams/Straub earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.126 after improving upon their best so far this season. Williams/Straub ranks 292nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.314 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	2	14	0	0.125	0-2	0-4	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	107	59	136	5.51	12.71	-7.20	3.64	6.36	1.51	2.00	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	65	42	57	0	1-1	2-4	7-9	0.65	0.88	0.15	0.57

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	42	17	79	0	0-8	2-8	2-7	0.40	1.88	0.26	0.26

2024: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Andrew Stopera , Mark Lazar
Minneapolis, MN
2023: Chiaki Matsumura
Chiaki Matsumura, Yasumasa Tanida
Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Oskar Eriksson , Mathias Hasselborg
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Monica Walker
Monica Walker, Alex Leichter
Boston, MA

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