Kovaleva Runner-Up at 2019 WCT Arctic Cup

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Anastasia
Bryzgalova

Second
Galina
Arsenkina

Lead
Ekaterina
Kuzmina

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) lost 5-4 to Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the WCT Arctic Cup, held May 22 - 27, 2019 in Dudinka, Russia. To advance to the championship game, Kovaleva won 5-4 over Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN) in the semifinals

Kovaleva finished 3-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Anna Venevtseva (Krasnoyarsk, RUS) 8-4, then went on to lose 3-2 against Muirhead. Kovaleva responded with a 8-1 win over KyeongAe Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Kovaleva won 6-1 against Isabella Wrana (Stockholm, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the WCT Arctic Cup, Kovaleva take home 31.511 world rankings points along with the $18,231CDN prize, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 11.029 after improving upon their best so far this season. Kovaleva ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 254.018 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

2019: Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Lauren Gray, Vicky Wright, Vicki Chalmers
Stirling, SCO
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Niklas Edin
Canada/Sweden,
2017: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Aleksandra Raeva, Nkeiruka Ezekh, Alina Kovaleva
Moscow, RUS