2010 Baden Masters

The 2010 Baden Masters was held September 10-12 in Baden, Switzerland. It was the first event of the Men's World Curling Tour 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 rink which defeated the new Brad Gushue/Randy Ferbey combination team in the final. Lips' team would win 10,000 CHF. In the bronze medal game, Norway's Thomas Ulsrud defeated Sweden's Niklas Edin.^[1][2]

2010 Baden Masters
Host city	Baden, Switzerland
Arena	Curling Center Baden Regio
Dates	Sept. 10-12
Winner	Team Lips
Curling club	CC Baden Regio, Baden, Switzerland
Skip	Thomas Lips
Third	Toni Müller (fourth)
Second	Remo Schmid
Lead	Simon Strübin
Finalist	Brad Gushue

Participating teams

• Alexander Attinger
• Tom Brewster
• Andrey Drozdov
• Niklas Edin
• Brad Gushue
• Pascal Hess
• Aleksandr Kirikov
• Thomas Lips
• Thomas Løvold
• Dominik Märki
• David Murdoch
• Mark Neeleman
• Daniel Neuner
• Claudio Pescia
• Manuel Ruch
• Christof Schwaller
• Jiří Snítil
• Thomas Ulsrud
• Markku Uusipaavalniemi
• 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

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	Gushue		7
	Murdoch		2
						Gushue		6
						Ulsrud		2
	Ulsrud		5
	Brewster		2
											Gushue		4
											Lips		6
	Lips		7
	Märki		3
						Lips		8			Third place
						Edin		5
	Edin		4								Ulsrud		7
	Uusipaavalniemi		2								Edin		3

References

1. "Lips wins 2010 Baden Masters". CurlingZone. 12 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
2. "2010 Baden Masters". World Curling Tour. 12 September 2010. Archived from the original on 26 September 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2024.