CHAMPION: Pollanen Wins 2019 Tallinn Mens International Challenger

Fourth
Jere
Sullanmaa

Third
Jason
Moore

Second
Iikko
Santti

SKIP
Jermu
Pollanen

Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) won 7-3 over Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the Final Advancing directly to the semifinals, Pollanen won 7-2 over Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER) to advance to the championship game. of the 2019 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia;

Pollanen finished 3-1 in the 15 team Tallinn Mens International Challenger qualifying round, held September 27 - 29, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Pollanen lost 5-4 to Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST), then responded with a 8-2 win over Truksans. Pollanen won 7-3 against Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI), then won 8-3 against Martin Bukovsky (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tallinn Mens International Challenger Championship title, Pollanen earned 14.012 world rankings points along with the $1,739CDN first prize cheque, moving up 85 spots the World Ranking Standings into 133rd place overall with 24.117 total points. Pollanen ranks 55th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.012 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	1	0	0.833	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	42	41	18	9.76	4.29	5.48	6.19	3.10	1.58	1.38	0.71

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	17	26	3	1	0-0	4-0	4-1	1.53	0.18	0.50	0.12

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	25	15	15	2	0-0	1-0	1-4	0.60	0.60	0.64	0.48

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