Aota

Aomori, Japan

SKIP
Shinobu
Aota

Third
Mayo
Yamaura

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Kotomi
Ishizaki

Games:	8
Record:	4W - 4L
PF/G:	7.12
PA/G:	6.61
Hammer Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Defense:	0.09
Force Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Shinobu Aota (Aomori, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Aota finished 4-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Aota defeated Denmark's Madeleine Dupont 5-1, then went on to lose 6-3 against Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni. Aota responded with a 10-5 win over Korea's Ji-Sun Kim. Aota went on to lose 9-4 against Satsuki Fujisawa (nagano, JPN). Aota responded with a 3-2 win over Laura Crocker (Waterloo, ON). Aota went on to lose 7-4 against Kai Tsuchiya (Nagano, JPN). Aota responded with a 9-3 win over Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Aota earned 3.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 68th place overall with 19.855 total points. Aota ranks 89th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.905 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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