CHAMPION: Abbes Wins 2024 St. Galler Elite Challenge

SKIP
Emira
Abbes

Third
Lena
Kapp

Second
Mia
Hoehne

Lead
Maike
Beer

Emira Abbes (Fuessen, GER) won 5-0 over Isabelle Einspieler (St. Gallen, SUI) in the Final of the St. Galler Elite Challenge, held January 18 - 21, 2024 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Abbes won 5-1 over Sara Messenzehl (Fuessen, GER) in the semifinals

Abbes finished 4-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abbes defeated Messenzehl 8-6, then won 11-3 against Elodie Jerger (Baden, SUI) and 8-2 against Ilknur Urusan (Erzurum, TUR). Abbes won 3-2 against Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the St. Galler Elite Challenge Championship title, Abbes earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque. Abbes move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 6.375 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 58th overall with 50.148 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abbes ranks 69th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	24	30	0	0.444	2-4	6-7	1-2	2-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	389	278	300	7.15	7.71	-0.57	4.16	4.58	1.72	1.69	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	211	200	96	36	4-1	15-8	41-15	0.95	0.46	0.34	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	178	78	204	13	0-10	8-10	13-31	0.44	1.15	0.56	0.28

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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