Yoshimura Runner-Up at 2018 Paf Masters Tour

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Kaho
Onodera

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Yumie
Funayama

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	9.56
PA/G:	5.33
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) lost 5-3 to Isabella Wrana (Stockholm, SWE) in the Final of the Paf Masters Tour, held October 18 - 21, 2018 in Aland, Finland. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Yoshimura won 7-3 over Tova Sundberg (Ostersund, SWE) to advance to the championship game. of the 2018 Paf Masters Tour in Aland, Finland;

Yoshimura finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Ilza Stabulniece (Riga, LAT) 7-2, then won 11-4 against Di Zhang (Harbin, CHN) and 7-4 against Li Jun Zhang (Beijing, CHN). Yoshimura won 8-6 against Oona Kauste (Aland, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Paf Masters Tour, Yoshimura take home 18.098 world rankings points along with the $6,760CDN prize. Yoshimura move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 12.339 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 18th overall with 177.692 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshimura ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 105.486 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

2019: Isabella Wrana
Isabella Wrana, Jennie Wahlin, Almida de Val, Fanny Sjoberg
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Isabella Wrana
Isabella Wrana, Jennie Wahlin, Almida de Val, Fanny Sjoberg
Stockholm, SWE
2017: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Chohi Kim
Uiseong, KOR

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