Bronze for Yoshida/Matsumura at 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	13.44
PA/G:	6.09
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.21
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.43

Yurika Yoshida/Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) won 9-6 over Satsuki Fujisawa/Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship in . of the 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship in ; Yurika Yoshida/Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) won 9-6 over Satsuki Fujisawa/Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship in . Yoshida/Matsumura lost 7-6 to Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship in ; and won 9-2 over Chinami Yoshida/Tetsuro Shimizu (Kitami, JPN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship in ;

Yoshida/Matsumura finished 5-1 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshida/Matsumura defeated Japan's Yoko Miura/Shinichi Tokuyama 14-2, then won 9-3 against Mami Yamada/Yuuma Tanabe (Morioka, JPN) and 12-5 against Yu Yokoyama/Tsuyoshi Morimoto (Tokyo, JPN). Yoshida/Matsumura won 11-2 against Masami Kitamura/Tomokazu Kitamura (Okayama, JPN), then won 10-3 against Japan's Mika Okuyama/Hiroto Naba. Yoshida/Matsumura went on to lose 9-6 against Fujisawa/Yamaguchi in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Japan Mixed Doubles National Championship, Yoshida/Matsumura earn 11.250 world rankings points. For week 30 of the event schedule, Yoshida/Matsumura did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Yoshida/Matsumura ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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