Rizzolli

SKIP
Luca
Rizzolli

Third
Mattia
Giovanella

Second
Alessandro
Odorizzi

Lead
Nicola
Gottardi

Luca Rizzolli (Cembra, ITA) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Rizzolli finished 1-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rizzolli defeated Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI) 6-4, then went on to lose 6-2 against Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO). Rizzolli lost 7-5 to Alberto Pimpini (Turin, ITA). Rizzolli lost 7-2 to Bangerter in their final qualifying round match.

Rizzolli earned 3.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Rizzolli move up 27 spots after posting a net gain of 2.152 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 241st overall with 8.942 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Rizzolli ranks 223rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.000 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

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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