Bronze for Yanagisawa at 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	12.57
PA/G:	5.43
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 8-4 over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 8-4 over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Yanagisawa lost 6-5 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Yanagisawa finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) 9-3, then won 11-2 against Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) and 11-4 against Maeda in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Yanagisawa earn 10.625 world rankings points and 1858CDN, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 13th place overall with 192.500 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.125 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: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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