Matsumura5-2 at 2020 Men's World Qualification Event

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Yasumasa
Tanida

Lead
Shinya
Abe

Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura lost 8-4 to Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS), then responded with a 8-2 win over Andrew Reed (Kent, ENG). Matsumura won 9-2 against Diego Tompkins (Mexico City, MEX), then won 10-3 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Matsumura went on to lose 6-5 against Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). Matsumura responded with a 12-5 win over Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Matsumura won 9-3 against Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Matsumura earned 11.571 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Men's World Qualification Event. Matsumura gained 2.899 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 16thplace overall with 224.159 total points. Matsumura ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 183.954 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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