Fujisawa Runner-Up at 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) lost 9-6 to Binia Feltscher (Flims, SUI) in the Final of the Ford World Women's Curling Championship, held March 19 - 27, 2016 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Fujisawa finished 9-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujisawa defeated Oona Kauste (Hyvinkaa, FIN) 7-5, then won 10-3 against Federica Apollonio (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) and 6-1 against Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS). Fujisawa went on to lose 11-4 against Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN). Fujisawa responded with a 6-5 win over Ji-Sun Kim (gyeonggido, KOR). Fujisawa went on to lose 7-4 against Feltscher. Fujisawa responded with a 8-4 win over Margaretha Sigfridsson (Sundsvall, SWE). Fujisawa won 8-1 against Daniela Driendl (Fï¿½ssen , GER), then won 7-4 against Erika Brown (Madison, USA) and 10-4 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO). Fujisawa won 11-2 against Chelsea Carey (Calgary, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship, Fujisawa take home 55.777 world rankings points. Fujisawa move up 12 spots after posting a net gain of 53.663 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 22nd overall with 205.279 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Fujisawa ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 156.546 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

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