Maeda3-3 at 2022 World Qualification Event

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-3 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Ting-Li Lin (Taiwan, TPE) 12-3, then went on to lose 8-7 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Maeda responded with a 5-3 win over Sergio Vez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP). Maeda went on to lose 10-8 against Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS). Maeda lost 8-1 to Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) where Maeda responded with a 6-4 win over Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

Maeda earned 1.519 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 196th place overall with 10.201 total points. Maeda ranks 176th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	13	12	0	0.520	5-4	4-5	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	213	158	150	7.42	7.04	0.38	4.51	4.37	1.65	1.61	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	104	114	33	15	1-1	10-0	25-7	1.10	0.32	0.40	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	109	44	117	9	1-1	2-9	7-26	0.40	1.07	0.49	0.28

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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