Kovaleva6-3 at 2014 World Junior Championships

Fourth
Julia
Portunova

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Second
Uliana
Vasilyeva

Lead
Anastasia
Bryzgalova

Alina Kovaleva (Moscow, RUS) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Veronica Zappone (Pinerolo, ITA) 9-5, then won 6-4 against Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE) and 6-4 against Kelsey Rocque (Edmonton, CAN). Kovaleva won 7-5 against Gina Aitken (Edinburgh, SCO). Kovaleva went on to lose 9-8 against Corina Mani (Aarau, SUI). Kovaleva responded with a 10-4 win over Christine Svensen (Hvidovre, DEN). Kovaleva went on to lose 7-5 against KyeongAe Kim (GeongBuk, KOR). Kovaleva responded with a 7-2 win over Zuzana Hajkova (Prague, CZE). Kovaleva went on to lose 8-7 against Cory Christensen (Duluth, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Kovaleva earned 4.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the World Junior Championships, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 70th place overall with 18.401 total points. Kovaleva ranks 79th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.570 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	12	10	1	0.545	3-2	6-5	1-3	0-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	177	130	122	7.34	6.89	0.45	4.46	4.46	1.65	1.54	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	83	99	23	11	1-0	8-2	23-3	1.19	0.28	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	94	31	99	8	0-3	1-4	6-19	0.33	1.05	0.59	0.24

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