Yildiz Runner-Up at Tallinn Ladies International Challenger

SKIP
Dilsat
Yildiz

Third
Oznur
Polat

Second
Ifayet
Calikusu

Lead
Berfin
Sengul

Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) lost 7-4 to Evelina Barone (Riga, LAT) in the Final of the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger, held November 2 - 5 at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. To advance to the championship game, Yildiz won 10-3 over Aneta Lipinska (Lodz, POL) in the semifinals of the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia; and won 7-3 over Verena Pfluegler (Kitzbuehel, AUT) in the quarterfinals. of the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonia;

Yildiz finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yildiz defeated Rebecca Mariani (Trentino, ITA) 11-5, then won 8-5 against Virginija Paulauskaite (Vilnius, LTU) and 5-2 against Klara Fomm (Fuessen, GER). Yildiz won 10-2 against Agate Regza (Riga, LAT). Yildiz went on to lose 6-5 against Lisa Farnell (Kent, ENG) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tallinn Ladies International Challenger, Yildiz take home 5.500 world rankings points along with the $1,178CDN prize, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 60th place overall with 49.305 total points. Yildiz ranks 82nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	21	24	0	0.467	3-5	4-4	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	345	232	241	6.72	6.99	-0.26	4.55	4.32	1.48	1.62	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	171	152	64	18	2-1	4-5	29-6	0.89	0.37	0.23	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	80	177	21	2-6	6-12	14-29	0.46	1.02	0.55	0.28

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