Yanagisawa Runner-Up at 2022 Curling Stadium Martensville International

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	8
Record:	5W - 3L
PF/G:	6.23
PA/G:	5.90
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.09
Force Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Efficiency:	0.16

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 6-5 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Martensville International, held September 1 - 5, 2022 at the Martensville Curling Club in Martensville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Yanagisawa won 7-3 over Colton Flasch (Saskatoon , SK) in the semifinals of the 2022 Curling Stadium Martensville International in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 6-4 over Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Curling Stadium Martensville International in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Yanagisawa finished 3-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa lost 4-0 to Flasch, then responded with a 6-4 win over Schwaller. Yanagisawa won 4-3 against Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON), then won 6-4 against Dallan Muyres (Saskatoon , SK). Yanagisawa went on to lose 8-4 against Laycock in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Curling Stadium Martensville International, Yanagisawa take home 24.750 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize, moving up 51 spots the World Ranking Standings into 69th place overall with 42.736 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

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