Matsumura/Tanida Reaches Curling Stadium Martensville Mixed Doubles Quarters

Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano, JPN) qualified for the Curling Stadium Martensville Mixed Doubles playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-0 against Ziqi Dong/Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN). of the Curling Stadium Martensville Mixed Doubles in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Matsumura/Tanida finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura/Tanida defeated Samantha Yachiw-Omelian/Jordan Raymond (Saskatoon, SK) 13-3, then won 9-2 against Alison Ingram/Brayden Grindheim (Saskatoon, SK) and 7-2 against Kya Kennedy/Landon Field (Saskatoon, SK). Matsumura/Tanida won 6-1 against Brett Barber/Mitch Heidt (Kerrobert , SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Matsumura/Tanida earned 7.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Curling Stadium Martensville Mixed Doubles, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 185.062 total points. Matsumura/Tanida ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 52.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	29	10	0	0.744	2-0	2-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	268	294	191	10.97	7.13	3.84	5.60	4.40	1.96	1.62	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	125	212	39	0	11-0	24-1	29-8	1.70	0.31	0.51	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	143	82	152	0	1-3	4-14	17-26	0.57	1.06	0.52	0.38

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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