CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 8-3 over Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held August 10 - 13, 2023 in Wakkanai, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Yoshimura won 8-6 over Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan;

Yoshimura finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Yuina Miura (Nayoro, JPN) 10-2, then won 13-2 against Japan's Natsuki Satou and 7-3 against Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup Championship title, Yoshimura earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $9,292CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 150.938 total points. Yoshimura ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 26.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	61	22	0	0.735	20-4	14-4	4-3	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	596	539	331	9.04	5.55	3.49	5.17	3.76	1.75	1.48	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	265	342	66	30	10-1	23-2	76-9	1.29	0.25	0.46	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	331	197	265	34	5-2	15-12	26-61	0.60	0.80	0.57	0.37

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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