Kovaleva7-0 at 2018 China Open

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Anastasia
Bryzgalova

Second
Uliana
Vasilyeva

Lead
Ekaterina
Kuzmina

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) 9-3, then won 8-4 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN) and 5-3 against Annmarie Dubberstein (Chaska, USA). Kovaleva won 5-3 against Sophie Jackson (Stirling, SCO), then won 8-4 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) and 6-2 against Jie Mei (Beijing, CHN). Kovaleva won 5-4 against Ursi Hegner (Uzwil, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the China Open Championship title, Kovaleva earned 34.594 world rankings points along with the $65,552CDN first prize cheque. Kovaleva move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 29.251 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 176.468 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kovaleva ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.723 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)