Yanagisawa Reaches 2022 Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Major Quarters

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	4
Record:	3W - 1L
PF/G:	4.83
PA/G:	4.83
Hammer Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) qualified for the 2022 Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Major playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-2 against Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB). of the 2022 Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Major in Leduc, Alberta, Canada;

Yanagisawa finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) 5-4, then won 2-1 against Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) and 5-3 against Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 19.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Major, moving up 25 spots the World Ranking Standings into 44th place overall with 62.236 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

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