Japan's Aoi Watanabe1-3 at Curling1spoon Elite 8

Fourth
Hinako
Sonobe

SKIP
Aoi
Watanabe

Second
Mao
Ishigaki

Lead
Mizuki
Hara

Japan's Aoi Watanabe finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Aoi Watanabe lost 9-1 to Youbeen Park (Seoul, KOR), droppimg another game, 13-0 to Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR). Japan's Aoi Watanabe lost 12-1 to Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN) where Japan's Aoi Watanabe responded with a 12-4 win over Ling-Yue Hung (Hong Kong, HKG) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Aoi Watanabe earned 1.313 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 6 of the event schedule, Japan's Aoi Watanabe did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 172nd to 173rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 3.165 total points. Japan's Aoi Watanabe ranks 55th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.313 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	5	12	0	0.294	0-0	0-2	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	111	66	117	5.95	10.54	-4.59	3.69	5.59	1.61	1.89	0.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	57	44	50	2	1-2	2-5	9-5	0.77	0.88	0.22	0.49

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	54	22	67	6	1-3	1-5	3-11	0.41	1.24	0.44	0.26

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