CHAMPION: Kanai Wins 2023 Chubu Curling Championships

SKIP
Asuka
Kanai

Third
Ami
Enami

Second
Junko
Nishimuro

Lead
Mone
Ryokawa

Asuka Kanai (Karuizawa, JPN) won 9-3 over Yuka Takimoto (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final Kanai advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Chubu Curling Championships, held January 12 - 15, 2023 in Chubu, Japan.

Kanai finished 5-0 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanai defeated Japan's Yui Miyagawa 9-1, then won 11-2 against Yuko Kikuchi (Karuizawa, JPN) and 8-5 against Takimoto. Kanai won 9-2 against Japan's Arina Ikeda, then won 9-2 against Japan's Akemi Kawahara in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Chubu Curling Championships Championship title, Kanai earned 3.750 world rankings points, remaining in 59th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3 after improving upon their best so far this season. Kanai ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 49.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	24	16	0	0.600	12-5	3-3	3-1	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	311	251	216	8.07	6.95	1.13	4.98	4.08	1.62	1.70	0.93

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	150	177	46	11	4-0	9-1	38-13	1.18	0.31	0.37	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	161	74	170	18	2-7	3-9	14-32	0.46	1.06	0.50	0.29

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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