CHAMPION: Kovaleva Wins 2019 China Open

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Maria
Komarova

Second
Galina
Arsenkina

Lead
Ekaterina
Kuzmina

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg , RUS) won 4-3 over Corryn Brown (Kamloops, BC) in the Final of the China Open, held December 13 - 17, 2019 in Tianjin, China. To advance to the championship game, Kovaleva won 5-3 over EunJung Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the semifinals

Kovaleva finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Asuka Kanai (Nagano, JPN) 9-3, then won 8-3 against Madison Bear (St.Paul, MN). Kovaleva went on to lose 9-4 against Kim. Kovaleva responded with a 6-3 win over Irene Schori (Limmattal, SUI). Kovaleva won 6-1 against Brown, then won 6-2 against Yu Han (Beijing, CHN) and 7-5 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the China Open Championship title, Kovaleva earned 35.227 world rankings points along with the $8,122CDN first prize cheque. Kovaleva move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 21.392 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 247.566 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kovaleva ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 192.226 points earned so far this season.

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SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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