Bystrov3-4 at 2018 Russian Curling Cup

St. Petersburg, Russia

SKIP
Aleksandr
Bystrov

Third
Sergey
Morozov

Second
Vadim
Shvedov

Lead
Konstantin
Manasevich

Games:	7
Record:	3W - 4L
PF/G:	6.53
PA/G:	9.18
Hammer Efficiency:	0.30
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Aleksandr Bystrov (St. Petersburg, RUS) finished 3-4 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bystrov defeated Kirill Savenkov (Dmitrov, RUS) 7-3, then went on to lose 7-2 against Alexey Timofeev (St. Petersburg, RUS). Bystrov lost 7-1 to Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Bystrov lost 6-3 to German Doronin (Moscow, RUS) where Bystrov responded with a 8-7 win over Alexander Orlov (St. Petersburg, RUS). Bystrov won 7-6 against Aleksandr Polushvaiko (Krasnodar, RUS). Bystrov went on to lose 9-4 against Aleksandr Kirikov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Bystrov earned 2.392 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 129 spots the World Ranking Standings into 372nd place overall with 2.819 total points. Bystrov ranks 307th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.392 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

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