Sato4-4 at 2023 World University Games: Lake Placid 2023

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Kazushi
Niino

Lead
Ayato
Sasaki

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) are currently 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Daniel Casper (Chaska, USA) 6-5, then went on to lose 7-4 against JaeBeom Lee (Kyungil, KOR). Sato lost 5-3 to Owen Purcell (Halifax, CAN). Sato lost 4-3 to Switzerland's Jan Iseli where Sato responded with a 6-4 win over James Craik (Stirling, GBR). Sato went on to lose 7-6 against Johan Nygren (Umea, SWE). Sato responded with a 7-2 win over Vitor De Melo (Sao Paolo, BRA). Sato won 5-4 against David Jakl (Prague, CZE). In their opening game, Sato plays.

Sato earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sato move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 1.5 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 61st overall with 61.081 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 58.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	23	0	0.603	9-3	7-3	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	429	318	268	7.41	6.25	1.17	4.06	4.06	1.83	1.54	1.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	207	237	61	38	11-0	15-3	43-11	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	222	81	207	43	3-2	5-13	13-44	0.36	0.93	0.55	0.22

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