Yanagisawa2-3 at 2025 Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa lost 8-3 to Jayden King (London, ON), then responded with a 7-5 win over Jacob Libbus (Edmonton, AB). Yanagisawa won 10-4 against James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB). Yanagisawa went on to lose 7-5 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Yanagisawa lost 5-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 3.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 34 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 28th place on the World Ranking Standings with 124.688 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 124.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	44	35	0	0.557	12-8	1-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	619	434	426	7.01	6.88	0.13	4.48	4.33	1.57	1.59	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	330	347	114	40	3-3	18-7	83-18	1.05	0.35	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	289	87	312	34	1-7	2-13	21-69	0.30	1.08	0.55	0.20

Chaska's Tabitha Peterson (photo: Joao Boente) defeated Scotland's Rebecca Morrison 5-2 in the final of the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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