CHAMPION: Yanagisawa Wins 2022 Japan Curling Championships

karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	11
Record:	10W - 1L
PF/G:	9.09
PA/G:	5.35
Hammer Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Efficiency:	0.25

Riku Yanagisawa (karuizawa, JPN) won 11-7 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Japan Curling Championships, held May 21 - 29, 2022 in . To advance to the championship game, Yanagisawa won 10-7 over Yasumasa Tanida (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2022 Japan Curling Championships in ;

Yanagisawa finished 8-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Japan's Juon Ishimura 6-5, then won 7-6 against Tanida and 10-3 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Yanagisawa won 9-2 against Minato Hayamizu (Nagano, JPN), then won 10-2 against Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) and 6-4 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Yanagisawa won 8-3 against Sato, then won 6-4 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Japan Curling Championships Championship title, Yanagisawa earned 19.297 world rankings points, moving up 134 spots the World Ranking Standings into 122nd place overall with 23.983 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 122nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.983 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	21	5	0	0.808	6-1	5-1	3-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	230	193	138	8.39	6.00	2.39	4.61	4.22	1.82	1.42	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	111	152	37	10	5-0	12-0	35-12	1.37	0.33	0.51	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	119	41	101	17	0-0	4-6	3-17	0.34	0.85	0.68	0.25

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