Grande2-2 at 2023 WCT Serbian Curling Jubilee Bonspiel

Lucrezia Grande (Pinerolo, ITA) finished 2-2 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Grande lost 9-8 to Adela Walczak (Todz, POL), then responded with a 10-4 win over Margarita Stoyan (Chisinau, MD). Grande went on to lose 10-9 against 's Irina Riazanova. Grande responded with a 15-1 win over Ana Klepic (Slavija, BIH) in their final qualifying round match.

Grande earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Grande move up 23 spots after posting a net gain of 1.126 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 720th overall with 10.688 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Grande ranks 179th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	10	11	0	0.476	2-2	3-3	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	150	144	119	9.60	7.93	1.67	5.40	4.60	1.78	1.72	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	69	85	34	0	4-0	10-0	9-8	1.23	0.49	0.33	0.38

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	81	59	85	0	2-5	2-8	10-10	0.73	1.05	0.47	0.47

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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