Granbom Reaches Sun City Cup Quarters

SKIP
Simon
Granbom

Third
Axel
Sjoeberg

Second
Fabian
Wingfors

Lead
Jacob
Hanna

Simon Granbom (Gavle, SWE) qualified for the Sun City Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 5-4 against Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). of the Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Granbom finished 3-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Granbom lost 8-6 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), then responded with a 8-3 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Granbom won 8-1 against Sweden's Patric Klaremo, then won 8-2 against Jan Tanner (Zug, SUI). Granbom went on to lose 7-1 against Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Granbom earned 9.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Sun City Cup, moving up 49 spots the World Ranking Standings into 110th place overall with 18.625 total points. Granbom ranks 110th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	9	0	0.550	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	139	124	101	8.92	7.27	1.65	4.89	4.60	1.82	1.58	0.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	74	89	27	5	4-0	7-0	15-5	1.20	0.36	0.38	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	65	35	74	2	0-2	3-3	8-18	0.54	1.14	0.45	0.32

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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