Yoshimura4-4 at 2022 Japan Curling Championships

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Kaho
Onodera

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Yumie
Funayama

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Japan's Miori Nakamura 8-3, then went on to lose 8-7 against Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN). Yoshimura lost 10-5 to Yuna Kotani (Fujiyoshida, JPN) where Yoshimura responded with a 8-6 win over Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN). Yoshimura won 16-0 against Yuki Shibuto (Hiroshima, JPN), then won 10-4 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Yoshimura went on to lose 6-5 against Asuka Kanai (Karuizawa, JPN). Yoshimura lost 7-6 to Kana Ogawa (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshimura earned 21.029 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Japan Curling Championships, moving up 25 spots the World Ranking Standings into 59th place overall with 51.346 total points. Yoshimura ranks 59th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.346 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	13	12	0	0.520	1-3	4-2	2-2	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	224	169	151	7.54	6.74	0.80	4.78	4.55	1.58	1.48	0.67

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	108	137	25	7	2-0	11-0	27-6	1.27	0.23	0.40	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	116	32	126	8	1-0	0-9	4-25	0.28	1.09	0.59	0.22

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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