Kim Finishes Fourth at 2019 China Open

SKIP
Eunjung
Kim

Third
Kyeongae
Kim

Second
Seonyeong
Kim

Lead
Yeongmi
Kim

EunJung Kim (Uiseong, KOR) lost 7-4 to Irene Schori (Limmattal, SUI) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. of the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China; EunJung Kim (Uiseong, KOR) lost 7-4 to Irene Schori (Limmattal, SUI) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. Kim lost 5-3 to Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg , RUS) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Kim finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim lost 7-5 to Corryn Brown (Kamloops, BC), then responded with a 8-2 win over Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER). Kim won 9-4 against Kovaleva, then won 6-5 against Yu Han (Beijing, CHN) and 6-1 against Madison Bear (St.Paul, MN). Kim went on to lose 8-2 against Schori. Kim responded with a 10-3 win over Asuka Kanai (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the China Open, Kim take home 14.091 world rankings points along with 472CDN. Kim move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 0.094999999999999 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 234.857 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kim ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.874 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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