Yamaguchi2-2 at 2022 Japan World Championship Trials

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Riku
Yanagisawa

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Takeru
Yamamoto

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 3-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) 6-5, then went on to lose 10-4 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Yamaguchi lost 9-5 to Morozumi where Yamaguchi responded with a 9-6 win over Maeda in their final qualifying round match.

Yamaguchi earned 0.748 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 20 of the event schedule, Yamaguchi did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Yamaguchi ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	5	4	0	0.556	1-1	1-1	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	77	51	58	6.62	7.53	-0.91	3.64	5.45	1.82	1.38	0.91

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	43	46	27	1	0-0	5-0	12-9	1.07	0.63	0.40	0.42

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	34	5	31	6	0-0	0-2	1-3	0.15	0.91	0.79	0.12

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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