Perth curler Robin Brydone targets top five world ranking with Team Whyte after strong start to season

Fair City curler Robin Brydone is targeting a push into the top five of the world rankings with Team Whyte following a strong start to the season.

Team Whyte, whose ranks also include Duncan McFadzean from Perth, have made two high-profile finals in recent weeks.

First, at the end of August, they impressed at the Euro Super Series held in Stirling before, just last week, working through to the showdown match at the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard in Canada.

Fellow Scots Team Mouat, the Olympic silver medallists, managed to come out on top on both occasions.

“We’ve had a great start to the season, played three events and only lost three games, two of those being in a final and one in a semi-final,” Brydone told the PA.

“If you had said that was how we would start the season before it had started then we would have taken that.

“It’s a massive improvement on our start to last season where we stumbled in the quarter finals regularly.

“For us our main goal this season is to keep climbing the world rankings and start pushing to be in the top five.

“To be able to do that we know we need to start going deeper in the Grand Slams out in Canada, making those semi-finals and potentially finals.

“If we do this then we give ourselves a good chance come the Scottish Championships where, if we win, we can be selected to go to the World Championships.”

Team Whyte lost out 6-2 in the most recent final against Team Mouat.

“The final in Oakville was tough,” Brydone admitted.

“The ice conditions changed slightly to what we had experienced for the weekend and they managed to adapt faster than we did, leaving us a few tricky shots at the start of the game.

“It left us chasing and, against those guys, that is never a position you want to be in.

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