CHAMPION: Yildiz Wins 2024 Cortina Curling Cup

SKIP
Dilsat
Yildiz

Third
Oznur
Polat

Second
Ifayet
Calikusu

Lead
Berfin
Sengul

Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) won 6-4 over Xenia Schwaller (Zurich, SUI) in the Final of the Cortina Curling Cup, held January 11 - 14, 2024 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. To advance to the championship game, Yildiz won 4-2 over Marianne Roervik (Lillehammer, NOR) in the semifinals of the 2024 Cortina Curling Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; and won 9-3 over Emira Abbes (Fuessen, GER) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Cortina Curling Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy;

Yildiz finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yildiz defeated Robyn Munro (Stirling, GBR) 9-3, then won 7-4 against Rebecca Mariani (Trentino, ITA). Yildiz went on to lose 5-3 against Schwaller. Yildiz responded with a 7-1 win over Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Cortina Curling Cup Championship title, Yildiz earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 30 spots the World Ranking Standings into 46th place overall with 65.172 total points. Yildiz ranks 46th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.250 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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