CHAMPION: Widmer Wins 2017 Tallinn Ladies International Challenger

Fourth
Larissa
Berchtold

SKIP
Chantale
Widmer

Second
Lara
Stocker

Lead
Roxanne
Heritier

Chantale Widmer (Schaffhausen, SUI) won 9-6 over Maria Baksheeva (St. Petersburg, RUS) in the Final of the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger, held November 3 - 5, 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Widmer finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Widmer defeated Ekaterina Telnova (Moscow, RUS) 6-3, then won 6-5 against Claire Hamilton (Edinburgh, SCO) and 6-5 against Alina Pavlyuchik (Minsk, BLR). Widmer won 9-7 against Tene Link (Tallinn, EST) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger Championship title, Widmer earned 13.616 world rankings points along with the $1,778CDN first prize cheque, moving up 42 spots the World Ranking Standings into 112th place overall with 25.936 total points. Widmer ranks 70th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.673 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

2022: Marie Kaldvee
Marie Kaldvee, Liisa Turmann, Kerli Laidsalu, Erika Tuvike
Tallinn, EST
2021: Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds, Hailey Duff , Kristian Lindstroem
Stirling, GBR
2019: Marie Kaldvee
Marie Kaldvee, Kerli Laidsalu, Heili Grossman, Erika Tuvike
Tallinn, EST
2018: Ursi Hegner
Michele Jaeggi, Ursi Hegner, Nina Ledergerber, Claudia Baumann
Uzwil, SUI
2017: Chantale Widmer
Larissa Berchtold, Chantale Widmer, Lara Stocker, Roxanne Heritier
Schaffhausen, SUI

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