Yanagisawa Reaches 2023 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic Quarters

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	8.16
PA/G:	6.05
Hammer Efficiency:	0.41
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) qualified for the 2023 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 5-4 against Catlin Schneider (Victoria, BC).

Yanagisawa finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Cameron de Jong (Penticton, BC) 6-4, then won 7-5 against Jeff Berg (Vancouver, BC) and 8-4 against Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC). Yanagisawa won 6-5 against Adam Fenton (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 7.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic. Yanagisawa gained -31.469 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 17thplace overall with 166.906 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 40.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	37	0	0.570	18-10	9-2	8-8	2-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	661	514	391	7.78	5.92	1.86	4.58	3.89	1.70	1.52	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	329	383	69	55	11-0	26-3	76-9	1.16	0.21	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	332	131	322	46	4-4	8-23	16-60	0.39	0.97	0.57	0.25

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