Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 6-5 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. of the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan; Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 6-5 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. Sasaki lost
7-2 to
Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Sasaki finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated
Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) 6-3, then went on to lose
7-5 against
Kitazawa. Sasaki responded with a
7-2 win over
Sae Yamamoto (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Sasaki earn
10.625 world rankings points and 1899CDN, moving up 69 spots the
World Ranking Standings into 116th place overall with
12.639 total points. Sasaki ranks 11th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
11.563 points earned so far this season.
