CHAMPION: Kovaleva Wins 2018 Russian Curling Cup

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Anastasia
Bryzgalova

Second
Uliana
Vasilyeva

Lead
Ejkaterina
Kuzmina

Games:	9
Record:	8W - 1L
PF/G:	9.05
PA/G:	4.76
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) won 6-3 over Ekaterina Galkina (Moscow, RUS) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Kovaleva won 10-4 over Olga Kotelnikova (Moscow, RUS) in the semifinals

Kovaleva finished 6-1 in the 16 team Russian Curling Cup qualifying round, held December 21 - 25, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Maria Baksheeva (Saint Petersburg, RUS) 6-5, then won 7-4 against Arina Rusina (Moscow, RUS) and 6-4 against Anna Venevtseva (Krasnoyarsk, RUS). Kovaleva won 8-1 against Ekaterina Tolstova (Dmitrov, RUS), then won 5-3 against Elizaveta Trukhina (Irkutsk, RUS). Kovaleva went on to lose 4-1 against Sofia Orazalina (Moscow, RUS). Kovaleva responded with a 8-2 win over Sofia Iarutina (Sverdlovsk, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Russian Curling Cup Championship title, Kovaleva earned 19.007 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Kovaleva move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 8.012 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 234.158 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kovaleva ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 218.129 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	8	1	0	0.889	1-1	4-1	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	63	57	30	9.05	4.76	4.29	4.76	3.97	1.90	1.20	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	28	39	6	4	2-0	2-0	10-1	1.39	0.21	0.58	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	35	18	24	4	0-0	2-0	3-4	0.51	0.69	0.80	0.31

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