Kitazawa2-3 at 2023 Insitu Players Open

SKIP
Ikue
Kitazawa

Third
Seina
Nakajima

Second
Minori
Suzuki

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 25-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kitazawa lost 8-7 to Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg, SWE), droppimg another game, 9-4 to Shelley Hardy (Sarnia, ON) where Kitazawa responded with a 6-3 win over Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Kitazawa went on to lose 4-3 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Kitazawa responded with a 7-1 win over Hailey Armstrong (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Kitazawa earned 5.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 12 of the event schedule, Kitazawa did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 21st to 22nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 157.625 total points. Kitazawa ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	11-3	6-4	1-5	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	421	373	247	8.86	5.87	2.99	5.15	4.09	1.72	1.44	0.76

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	199	265	46	17	8-0	19-0	57-9	1.33	0.23	0.46	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	222	108	201	15	3-0	8-13	11-40	0.49	0.91	0.61	0.32

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