CHAMPION: Wrana Wins 2024 WCT Take-Out Trophy

Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE) won 7-4 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Final of the WCT Take-Out Trophy, held December 20 - 22, 2024 in Basel, Switzerland. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Wrana won 8-2 over Roxanne Heritier (Bern, SUI) to advance to the championship game. of the 2024 WCT Take-Out Trophy in Basel, Switzerland;

Wrana finished 5-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wrana defeated Elodie Jerger (Baden, SUI) 6-2, then won 8-4 against Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI) and 8-3 against Tilsimay Alliyarova (Almaty, KAZ). Wrana won 6-3 against Kitazawa, then won 5-3 against Sara Messenzehl (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Take-Out Trophy Championship title, Wrana earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $9,576CDN first prize cheque. Wrana move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 15 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 12th overall with 224.656 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Wrana ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 122.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	44	30	0	0.595	9-4	1-3	0-3	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	522	438	358	8.39	6.86	1.53	4.85	4.21	1.73	1.63	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	259	316	87	26	12-2	24-1	56-17	1.22	0.34	0.39	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	263	122	271	23	6-6	3-18	17-55	0.46	1.03	0.51	0.30

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