CHAMPION: Yamaguchi Wins 2019 WCT Kurosawa Cup

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Satoshi
Koizumi

Second
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Lead
Taisei
Kanai

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 9-4 over Marina Oiwa (Miyota, JPN) in the Final of the WCT Kurosawa Cup, held January 12 - 14, 2019 in Miyota, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Yamaguchi won 9-1 over Kenji Komoda (Sagamihara, JPN) in the semifinals

Yamaguchi finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Yuhei Kusui (Osaka, JPN) 8-4, then won 10-4 against Asuka Kanai (Karuizwaw, JPN) and 10-1 against Yumiko Kashiwagi (Karuizawa, JPN). Yamaguchi won 7-3 against Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN), then won 8-4 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Kurosawa Cup Championship title, Yamaguchi earned 8.598 world rankings points along with the $2,428CDN first prize cheque. Yamaguchi move up 26 spots after posting a net gain of 5.466 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 147th overall with 25.325 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yamaguchi ranks 163rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.061 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

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