Maeda Reaches ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship Semifinals

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) run at the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-5 loss to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). of the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship in Tokoro, Japan;

Maeda finished 6-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) 7-6, then won 10-7 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) and 10-1 against Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN). Maeda won 6-3 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN), then won 6-2 against Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) and 12-6 against Yanagisawa. Maeda went on to lose 9-5 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Maeda earned 18.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship. Maeda move up 12 spots after posting a net gain of 12.375 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 44th overall with 74.125 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Maeda ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 74.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	14-5	4-5	2-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	400	359	254	8.98	6.35	2.63	4.88	4.00	1.84	1.59	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	248	75	25	10-1	23-4	44-10	1.27	0.38	0.45	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	204	111	179	20	1-4	8-12	16-34	0.54	0.88	0.54	0.37

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