The 2010 Baden Masters

Baden Masters

The Baden Masters is an annual curling tournament, held in early September in Baden, Switzerland. It is the first curling tournament of the World Curling Tour season. It was first held in 2000 and it became a WCT event in 2005.-Past champions:...

was held September 10-12 in Baden

Baden

Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. It was the first event of the Men's World Curling Tour

World Curling Tour

The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

 for the 2010-11 curling season. The total purse of the event was 26,500 Swiss francs (CHF). The winning team was the hometown Thomas Lips

Thomas Lips

Thomas Lips is a Swiss curler. Lips was a member of the Swiss team that won the 2006 European Curling Championships....

 rink which defeated the new Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue

Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

/Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey

Randy Ferbey is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta.Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion....

 combination team in the final. Lips' team would win 10,000 CHF. In the bronze medal game, Norway's Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....

 defeated Sweden's Niklas Edin

Niklas Edin

Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler. He is one of the top skips in Sweden.In 2004 Edin skipped his Swedish team to a World Junior Curling Championship title. In the final Sweden defeated Stefan Rindlisbacher of Switzerland. The following year he was an alternate for the silver medal winning Swedish...

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Participating teams

Alexander Attinger Tom Brewster

Tom Brewster

Thomas Brewster, Jr. is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland.Brewster is a former World Junior champion, having won the title in 1995...

 Andrey Drozdov

Andrey Drozdov

Andrey Drozdov is a Russian curler from Moscow. He skips one of the Russian national teams.Drozdov won his first national championship as a skip in 2009. He has represented Russia in three European Curling Championships. In 2007, he placed 14th playing third for Alexander Kirikov. In 2008, he...

 Niklas Edin

Niklas Edin

Niklas Edin is a Swedish curler. He is one of the top skips in Sweden.In 2004 Edin skipped his Swedish team to a World Junior Curling Championship title. In the final Sweden defeated Stefan Rindlisbacher of Switzerland. The following year he was an alternate for the silver medal winning Swedish...

 Brad Gushue

Brad Gushue

Bradley Raymond "Brad" Gushue, ONL is a Canadian curler from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal by defeating Finland...

 Pascal Hess Aleksandr Kirikov Thomas Lips

Thomas Lips

Thomas Lips is a Swiss curler. Lips was a member of the Swiss team that won the 2006 European Curling Championships....

 Thomas Løvold

Thomas Løvold

Thomas Løvold is a Norwegian curler.At Junior level, Løvold competed as skip and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships "B" tournaments....

 Dominik Märki David Murdoch

David Murdoch

David Murdoch is a Scottish curler from Lockerbie. Murdoch and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith were the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions.-Background:...

 Mark Neeleman Daniel Neuner Claudio Pescia

Claudio Pescia

Claudio Pescia is a Swiss curler from Wettswil. Originally the skip of the Italian national team, Pescia now skips under the Swiss flag....

 Manuel Ruch Christof Schwaller

Christof Schwaller

Christof Schwaller is a Swiss curler and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....

 Jiří Snítil

Jiří Snítil

Jiří Snítil is a curler from the Czech Republic. He currently skips the Czech Republic national team, but throws third stones. He started curling at the age of 21....

 Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud

Thomas Ulsrud is a Norwegian curler.Ulsrud has curled professionally since 1983. In his second World Junior Curling Championship in 1988, Ulsrud skipped Norway to a bronze medal....

 Markku Uusipaavalniemi

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

Markku Uusipaavalniemi is a Finnish curler and politician.-Personal life:Uusipaavalniemi lives in Hyvinkää with his wife and three children. His older brother Jussi taught him how to curl.-Curling career:...

 Patrick Vuille

Draw

Group A	W	L
Gushue	4	0
Märki	3	1
Hess	1	3
Løvold	1	3
Neeleman	1	3

Group B	W	L
Lips	3	1
Murdoch	3	1
Pescia	3	1
Snítil	1	3
Kirikov	0	4

Group C	W	L
Ulsrud	4	0
Uusipaavalniemi	2	2
Schwaller	2	2
Drozdov	1	3
Ruch	1	3

Group D	W	L
Edin	4	0
Brewster	3	1
Attinger	1	3
Neuner	1	3
Vuille	1	3

Playoffs

External links

• WCT event site