Rudzitis

SKIP
Janis
Rudzitis

Third
Aleksandrs
Baranovskis

Second
Ritvars
Graumanis

Lead
Janis
Laizans

Janis Rudzitis (Riga, LAT) needed tiebreakers to advance to the playoffs, Rudzitis finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rudzitis defeated Oleg Krasikov (Saint Petersburg, RUS) 10-8, then went on to lose 10-9 against Rob Retchless (Tunbridge Wells, ENG). Rudzitis lost 8-5 to Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Rudzitis earned 0.380 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Rudzitis move up 38 spots after posting a net gain of 0.343 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 523rd overall with 0.455 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Rudzitis ranks 469th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.380 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

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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