Hegner4-3 at 2018 China Open

Fourth
Michele
Jaeggi

SKIP
Ursi
Hegner

Second
Nina
Ledergerber

Lead
Claudia
Baumann

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

With their runner-up finish at the China Open, Hegner take home 25.369 world rankings points along with the $39,331CDN prize. Hegner move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 22.274 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 42nd overall with 94.455 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Hegner ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 69.690 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.

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