Kovaleva7-0 at 2018 China Open

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Anastasia
Bryzgalova

Second
Uliana
Vasilyeva

Lead
Ejkaterina
Kuzmina

Games:	9
Record:	9W - 0L
PF/G:	8.38
PA/G:	4.41
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.09
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) finished 7-0 in the 8 team China Open qualifying round, held October 16 - 22, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) 9-3, then won 8-4 against Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN) and 5-3 against Annmarie Dubberstein (Chaska, USA). Kovaleva won 5-3 against Sophie Jackson (Stirling, SCO), then won 8-4 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) and 6-2 against Jie Mei (Beijing, CHN). Kovaleva won 5-4 against Ursi Hegner (Uzwil, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the China Open Championship title, Kovaleva earned 34.594 world rankings points along with the $65,552CDN first prize cheque. Kovaleva move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 29.251 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 176.468 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kovaleva ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.723 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	9	0	0	1.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	68	57	30	8.38	4.41	3.97	5.29	3.38	1.58	1.30	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	32	45	3	4	0-0	4-0	12-0	1.41	0.09	0.57	0.09

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	36	12	27	5	0-0	0-1	1-5	0.33	0.75	0.70	0.31

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