Retornaz5-7 at 2025 BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Mattia
Giovanella

Joel Retornaz (Cembra, ITA) finished 5-7 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz lost 7-6 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA), then responded with a 9-2 win over Hyojun Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Retornaz went on to lose 9-4 against Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN). Retornaz responded with a 7-5 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Retornaz went on to lose 9-8 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Retornaz lost 9-7 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Retornaz lost 4-2 to Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, CAN) where Retornaz responded with a 8-2 win over Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Retornaz went on to lose 8-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI). Retornaz responded with a 9-3 win over Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Retornaz won 10-8 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad , SWE). Retornaz went on to lose 9-7 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 20.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Retornaz move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 5.625 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 216.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Retornaz ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 216.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	47	40	0	0.540	9-4	7-8	4-5	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	661	485	425	7.34	6.43	0.91	4.48	4.05	1.64	1.59	1.47

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	324	375	75	47	4-3	27-4	82-5	1.16	0.23	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	337	110	350	50	3-6	4-23	21-70	0.33	1.04	0.54	0.21

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