Retornaz5-4 at 2020 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS) 8-6, then went on to lose 7-5 against Ross Paterson (Stirling, SCO). Retornaz lost 11-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) where Retornaz responded with a 10-3 win over Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Retornaz won 8-7 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 8-2 against Andrew Reed (Kent, ENG). Retornaz went on to lose 9-8 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Retornaz responded with a 7-6 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Retornaz went on to lose 7-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 15.978 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 32nd place overall with 145.977 total points. Retornaz ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 104.471 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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