CHAMPION: Craik Wins Danish Open

SKIP
Ross
Craik

Third
Scott
Hyslop

Second
Struan
Carson

Lead
Jack
Carrick

Ross Craik (Stirling, SCO) won 5-3 over Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) in the Final of the Danish Open, held November 2 - 5 in Copenhagen, Denmark. To advance to the championship game, Craik won 5-3 over Axel Landelius (Mjoelby, SWE) in the semifinals of the Danish Open in Copenhagen, Denmark; and won 4-3 over Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA) in the quarterfinals. of the Danish Open in Copenhagen, Denmark;

Craik finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Timothy Verreycken (Zemst, BEL) 6-5, then went on to lose 4-3 against Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Craik lost 7-2 to Jonathan Vilandt (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Danish Open Championship title, Craik earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 48 spots the World Ranking Standings into 145th place overall with 16.508 total points. Craik ranks 110th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	25	0	0.390	4-3	4-13	3-3	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	311	203	248	6.53	7.97	-1.45	4.41	4.69	1.48	1.70	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	150	146	64	12	2-1	7-5	32-6	0.97	0.43	0.30	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	57	184	16	0-7	2-15	10-29	0.35	1.14	0.50	0.27

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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