Yoshioka

SKIP
Hiroki
Yoshioka

Third
Hiromitsu
Fujinaka

Second
Hiroshi
Fukui

Lead
Makoto
Kouhashi

Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Yoshioka finished 3-2 in the 12 team Keijinkai Rizing Cup qualifying round, held January 11 - 13, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Yoshioka lost 7-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) where Yoshioka responded with a 11-1 win over Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN). Yoshioka won 7-4 against Michio Hatano (Chiba, JPN), then won 8-1 against Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshioka earned 2.275 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Yoshioka move up 138 spots after posting a net gain of 2.093 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 364th overall with 2.639 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshioka ranks 340th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.275 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	4	2	0	0.667	0-0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	41	43	25	10.49	6.10	4.39	5.85	3.90	1.79	1.56	0.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	17	22	9	0	1-0	0-0	7-3	1.29	0.53	0.47	0.35

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	24	21	16	1	0-0	1-1	6-4	0.88	0.67	0.50	0.54

Kerri Einarson (photo: Andrew Klaver / Curling Canada) was able to get by Ontario's Rachel Homan to claim her second-consecutive Scotties title.

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