Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) qualified for the 2018 Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match
5-3 against
Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS). of the 2018 Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup in Danderyd, Sweden, Sweden;
Yoshimura finished 3-1 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura lost
8-6 to
Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO), then responded with a
7-6 win over
Anette Norberg (Stocksund, SWE). Yoshimura won
9-5 against
Ursi Hegner (Uzwil, SUI), then won
9-4 against
Virginija Paulauskaite (Vilnius, LTU) in their final qualifying round match.
Yoshimura earned
21.364 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup. Yoshimura move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 12.585 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 20th overall with
165.353 total points on the
World Ranking Standings. Yoshimura ranks 10th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
84.122 points earned so far this season.
