CHAMPION: Sidorova Wins 2018 Karuizawa International

Moscow, Russia

SKIP
Anna
Sidorova

Third
Margarita
Fomina

Second
Julia
Portunova

Lead
Julia
Guzieva

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	9.60
PA/G:	5.60
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) won 8-3 over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Sidorova won 7-4 over Seina Nakajima (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won 6-3 over Sophie Jackson (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan;

Sidorova finished 3-1 in the 15 team Karuizawa International qualifying round, held December 20 - 23, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Sidorova lost 6-5 to Yoshimura, then responded with a 7-3 win over Min Ji Kim (chuncheon city, KOR). Sidorova won 8-3 against Kaede Kudo (Tokyo, JPN), then won 7-6 against Ami Enami (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Sidorova earned 32.405 world rankings points along with the $15,894CDN first prize cheque, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 24th place overall with 159.943 total points. Sidorova ranks 32nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 104.177 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	6	1	0	0.857	2-0	1-1	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	50	48	28	9.60	5.60	4.00	5.80	3.60	1.66	1.56	0.60

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	20	26	3	2	0-0	3-0	5-0	1.30	0.15	0.44	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	30	22	25	1	0-0	3-1	2-8	0.73	0.83	0.40	0.47

2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Un-Chi Gim
Un-Chi Gim, Min-Ji Um, Seul-Bee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye-Eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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