CHAMPION: Yamaguchi Wins 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Riku
Yanagisawa

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) won 4-2 over Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Yamaguchi won 6-3 over Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan;

Yamaguchi finished 5-0 in the 12 team Keijinkai Rizing Cup qualifying round, held January 11 - 13, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) 7-3, then won 7-3 against Michio Hatano (Chiba, JPN) and 11-3 against Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN). Yamaguchi won 4-3 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN), then won 5-1 against Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Keijinkai Rizing Cup Championship title, Yamaguchi earned 11.373 world rankings points along with the $5,934CDN first prize cheque. Yamaguchi move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 3.966 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 39th overall with 105.718 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yamaguchi ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 102.627 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	7	0	0	1.000	1-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	47	44	18	9.36	3.83	5.53	5.53	2.98	1.69	1.29	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	18	33	1	1	2-0	3-0	5-0	1.83	0.06	0.59	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	29	11	17	6	0-0	0-0	1-4	0.38	0.59	0.69	0.34

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