Yamaguchi2-2 at ADVICS Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Riku
Yanagisawa

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Games:	4
Record:	2W - 2L
PF/G:	8.52
PA/G:	7.41
Hammer Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10 team ADVICS Cup qualifying round, held August 9 - 12 in , . In their opening game, Yamaguchi lost 8-3 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-5 to De Jia Zou (Beijing, CHN) where Yamaguchi responded with a 8-3 win over Daiki Shikano (Sapporo, JPN). Yamaguchi won 7-2 against Kei Kamada (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yamaguchi earned 2.889 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 116th place overall with 26.113 total points. Yamaguchi ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.659 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	2	0	0.500	1-0	1-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	27	23	20	8.52	7.41	1.11	5.19	4.81	1.64	1.54	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	12	17	1	0	0-0	1-0	4-0	1.42	0.08	0.42	0.08

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	15	6	19	0	0-0	1-2	1-3	0.40	1.27	0.58	0.20

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