Hasselborg Runner-Up at 2023 Sun City Cup

SKIP
Anna
Hasselborg

Third
Sara
McManus

Second
Agnes
Knochenhauer

Lead
Sofia
Mabergs

Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) lost 4-3 to Marianne Roervik (Oslo, NOR) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held February 23 - 26, 2023 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Hasselborg won 6-3 over Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg , SWE) in the semifinals

Hasselborg finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hasselborg defeated Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) 9-3, then won 7-1 against Maia Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR) and 6-5 against Roervik. Hasselborg won 8-5 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Sun City Cup, Hasselborg take home 22.000 world rankings points along with the $1,565CDN prize. Hasselborg gained -386.702 points improving upon their best 7 events, though dropped 366 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 374thplace overall with -143.012 total points. Hasselborg ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 195.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	56	36	0	0.609	20-8	3-10	6-7	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	721	547	468	7.59	6.49	1.10	4.56	4.09	1.66	1.59	1.35

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	369	423	102	55	7-3	36-5	84-11	1.15	0.28	0.40	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	352	124	366	42	2-7	9-20	12-79	0.35	1.04	0.53	0.24

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