Tirinzoni Reaches 2021 The Challenger Semifinals

Fourth
Alina
Paetz

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Second
Esther
Neuenschwander

Lead
Melanie
Barbezat

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) run at the 2021 The Challenger came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-5 loss to Eve Muirhead (Stirling, UK).

Tirinzoni finished 3-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Nora Wuest (Wetzikon, SUI) 7-6, then went on to lose 7-6 against Irene Schori (Langenthal, SUI). Tirinzoni responded with a 5-3 win over Muirhead. Tirinzoni won 6-4 against Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Tirinzoni earned 20.426 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the The Challenger, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 186.022 total points. Tirinzoni ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.426 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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