Nielsen

Hvidovre, Denmark

SKIP
Lene
Nielsen

Third
Helle
Simonsen

Second
Jeanne
Ellegaard

Lead
Maria
Poulsen

Games:	12
Record:	7W - 5L
PF/G:	7.03
PA/G:	6.73
Hammer Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Defense:	0.27
Force Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Nielsen finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nielsen lost 8-5 to Mirjam Ott (Davos, SUI), then responded with a 9-5 win over Andrea Schoepp (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER). Nielsen won 9-2 against Marianne Rorvik (Oslo, NOR). Nielsen went on to lose 10-1 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO). Nielsen lost 6-4 to Margaretha Sigfridsson (Harnosand, SWE) where Nielsen responded with a 8-6 win over Evita Regza (Riga, LAT). Nielsen won 6-5 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS), then won 6-2 against Veronica Zappone (Trentino, ITA) and 10-5 against Anna Kubeskova (Praha, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Nielsen earned 20.000 world rankings points for their Top 7 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 84.930 total points. Nielsen ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	26	28	0	0.481	9-8	13-15	4-4	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	445	326	306	7.33	6.88	0.45	4.54	4.45	1.61	1.55	1.01

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	214	224	79	24	3-0	15-4	48-18	1.05	0.37	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	231	102	227	21	2-1	7-11	16-57	0.44	0.98	0.52	0.28

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