CHAMPION: Henderson Wins 2023 Aberdeen Classic

SKIP
Fay
Henderson

Third
Hailey
Duff

Second
Amy
MacDonald

Lead
Katie
McMillan

Fay Henderson (Stirling, GBR) won 7-3 over Hana Synackova (Prague, CZE) in the Final Henderson advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Aberdeen Classic, held December 8 - 10, 2023 at the Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Henderson finished 4-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Henderson defeated Robyn Munro (Stirling, GBR) 8-2, then won 5-4 against Lenka Hronova (Prague, CZE) and 8-2 against Lucy Blair (Stirling, SCO). Henderson won 5-4 against Synackova in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Aberdeen Classic Championship title, Henderson earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 69th place overall with 44.238 total points. Henderson ranks 61st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 34.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	30	22	0	0.577	4-2	7-6	3-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	393	305	251	7.76	6.39	1.37	4.76	4.07	1.63	1.57	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	180	220	47	18	3-1	17-1	50-7	1.22	0.26	0.43	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	213	85	204	28	0-4	6-15	13-37	0.40	0.96	0.55	0.28

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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