CHAMPION: Matsumura/Tanida Wins 2023 Mixed Doubles Super Series

Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN) won 7-5 over Laura Walker/Kirk Muyres (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Sherwood Park, held October 5 - 8, 2023 at the Sherwood Park Curl Club in Sherwood Park, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Matsumura/Tanida won 10-6 over Tahli Gill/Dean Hewitt (Brisbane, AUS) in the semifinals of the 2023 Mixed Doubles Super Series - Sherwood Park in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada; and won 11-4 over Alyssa Nedohin/David Nedohin (Sherwood Park, AB) in the quarterfinals.

Matsumura/Tanida finished 5-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura/Tanida defeated Jaelyn Cotter/Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) 10-3, then won 10-3 against Ashley Kalk/Craig MacAlpine (Edmonton, AB) and 8-5 against Jenny Perret/Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI). Matsumura/Tanida won 8-5 against Therese Westman/Robin Ahlberg (Stockholm, SWE), then won 12-2 against Korea's Seojin Park/Hyeon Moon in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Mixed Doubles Super Series - Sherwood Park Championship title, Matsumura/Tanida earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque. Matsumura/Tanida gained 0.81200000000001 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 8 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 814thplace overall with 177.562 total points. Matsumura/Tanida ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	29	10	0	0.744	2-0	2-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	268	294	191	10.97	7.13	3.84	5.60	4.40	1.96	1.62	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	125	212	39	0	11-0	24-1	29-8	1.70	0.31	0.51	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	143	82	152	0	1-3	4-14	17-26	0.57	1.06	0.52	0.38

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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