Japan's Mika Okuyama2-2 at 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Mika
Okuyama

Third
Miyuki
Kawamura

Second
Tomoko
Takeda

Lead
Chihiro
Matsumoto

Japan's Mika Okuyama finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Mika Okuyama lost 9-3 to Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 8-5 win over Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN). Japan's Mika Okuyama won 10-4 against Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN). Japan's Mika Okuyama went on to lose 7-4 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Mika Okuyama earned 1.875 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 2 of the event schedule, Japan's Mika Okuyama did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Japan's Mika Okuyama ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2024: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Yusuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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