Yanagisawa1-3 at 2023 ATB Okotoks Classic

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 1-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Rob Nobert (Vernon, BC) 7-6, then went on to lose 6-1 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI). Yanagisawa lost 5-3 to Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER). Yanagisawa lost 6-5 to Jacob Libbus (Okotoks, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 9 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 16th place on the World Ranking Standings with 198.375 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 29th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.000 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

2024: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, Colton Flasch, Kevin Marsh, Daniel Marsh
Saskatoon, SK
2023: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Calgary, AB
2022: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Chaska's Tabitha Peterson (photo: Joao Boente) defeated Scotland's Rebecca Morrison 5-2 in the final of the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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