Yanagisawa Runner-Up at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 8-3 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship, held January 27 - February 4 in Tokoro, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Yanagisawa won 8-5 over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship in Tokoro, Japan;

Yanagisawa finished 5-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Japan's Ryutaro Tani 11-3, then won 17-1 against Kouhei Sato (Tohoku, JPN). Yanagisawa went on to lose 8-1 against Abe. Yanagisawa responded with a 10-0 win over Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN). Yanagisawa won 8-7 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Yanagisawa went on to lose 12-6 against Maeda. Yanagisawa responded with a 7-1 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship, Yanagisawa take home 22.000 world rankings points, remaining in 28th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -20.094 after improving upon their best so far this season. Yanagisawa ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 116.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	37	0	0.570	18-10	9-2	8-8	2-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	661	514	391	7.78	5.92	1.86	4.58	3.89	1.70	1.52	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	329	383	69	55	11-0	26-3	76-9	1.16	0.21	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	332	131	322	46	4-4	8-23	16-60	0.39	0.97	0.57	0.25

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