The 2010 Baden Masters was held September 10-12 in

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. It was the first event of the Men's

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for the

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. The total purse of the event was 26,500

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(CHF). The winning team was the hometown Thomas Lips rink which defeated the new

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

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defeated Sweden's

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Participating teams

Alexander Attinger Alexander Attinger (born 8 January 1986) is a Swiss curler from Dübendorf. Attinger has played in one international event, the 2006 World Junior Curling Championships. He was the alternate on the Swiss team, but ended up playing in six games. ...

Tom Brewster Thomas Brewster Jr. (born 10 April 1974) is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently the coach of the Kyle Waddell men's team. Career Brewster is a former World Junior champion, having won the title in 1995. The Scottish te ...

Andrey Drozdov Andrey Anatolyevich Drozdov (; born 23 February 1988) is a Russian curler from Zelenograd. He skips one of the Russian national teams, and is the first Russian men's skip to ever play in the World Championships and first man to skip Russia at th ...

* Pascal Hess * Aleksandr Kirikov * Thomas Lips *

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Dominik Märki Dominik Märki (born 9 October 1990) is a Swiss-American curler, currently living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He currently plays third on Team Jason Smith. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics (), official ...

David Murdoch David Matthew Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions ...

* Mark Neeleman *

Daniel Neuner Daniel Neuner (born 25 October 1987 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany) is a German male curler. He has represented Germany at several international championships, including at two World Junior Championships and a World Men's Championship. ...

* Claudio Pescia * Manuel Ruch *

Christof Schwaller Christof Schwaller (born 3 October 1966) 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 (born 24 February 1975) is a curler from the Czech Republic. He currently skips the Czech Republic national team. He started curling at the age of 21. Snítil has represented the Czech Republic in seven World Curling Champions ...

Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi (born 23 November 1966) is a Finnish curler and former politician. Curling career Uusipaavalniemi was the skip of Team Finland for the first time in the mid-1990s. Most (but not all) of Finland's curling medals have been ...

* Patrick Vuille

Draw

Playoffs

References

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