Yamaguchi5-7 at 2025 BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship

Fourth
Riku
Yanagisawa

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 5-7 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi lost 7-3 to Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, CAN), droppimg another game, 9-6 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Yamaguchi lost 10-5 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad , SWE). Yamaguchi lost 8-5 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) where Yamaguchi responded with a 9-7 win over Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Yamaguchi won 6-4 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Yamaguchi went on to lose 11-3 against Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Yamaguchi responded with a 7-4 win over Hyojun Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Yamaguchi went on to lose 9-6 against Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA). Yamaguchi responded with a 7-6 win over Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN). Yamaguchi went on to lose 11-5 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Yamaguchi responded with a 9-7 win over Joel Retornaz (Cembra, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Yamaguchi earned 20.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Yamaguchi move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 16.125 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 24th overall with 140.813 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yamaguchi ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 140.813 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

Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.