Japan's Aoi Watanabe0-4 at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Japan

Fourth
Hinako
Sonobe

SKIP
Aoi
Watanabe

Second
Mao
Ishigaki

Lead
Mizuki
Hara

Games:	4
Record:	0W - 4L
PF/G:	6.00
PA/G:	8.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.40
Force Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Japan's Aoi Watanabe finished 0-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Aoi Watanabe lost 6-3 to Yuina Miura (Sapporo, JPN), droppimg another game, 6-4 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Japan's Aoi Watanabe lost 6-5 to Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN). Japan's Aoi Watanabe lost 8-6 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 2 of the event schedule, Japan's Aoi Watanabe did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 179th to 182nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 1.852 total points. Japan's Aoi Watanabe ranks 57th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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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Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
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Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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