Kovaleva1-8 at 2022 Winter Olympics

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Anna
Sidorova

Second
Galina
Arsenkina

Lead
Ekaterina
Kuzmina

Games:	9
Record:	1W - 8L
PF/G:	6.10
PA/G:	9.63
Hammer Efficiency:	0.24
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) finished 1-8 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva lost 9-3 to Tabitha Peterson (St. Paul, USA), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI). Kovaleva lost 9-5 to Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR). Kovaleva lost 10-5 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Kovaleva lost 11-5 to Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Kovaleva lost 10-5 to Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN) where Kovaleva responded with a 11-5 win over Yu Han (Beijing, CHN). Kovaleva went on to lose 8-5 against Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Kovaleva lost 9-4 to Eve Muirhead (Stirling, UK) in their final qualifying round match.

Kovaleva earned 6.490 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 217.040 total points. Kovaleva ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 157.626 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	24	20	0	0.545	5-6	3-6	1-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	345	274	233	7.94	6.75	1.19	4.55	4.43	1.75	1.52	1.01

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	174	206	59	17	5-0	15-4	39-12	1.18	0.34	0.38	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	171	68	174	18	4-4	3-7	10-34	0.40	1.02	0.61	0.23

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