Kitazawa6-6 at 2022 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Womens Curling Championship

SKIP
Ikue
Kitazawa

Third
Seina
Nakajima

Second
Minori
Suzuki

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) finished 6-6 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kitazawa defeated Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) 7-6, then won 9-2 against Stefania Constantini (Trentino, ITA) and 7-6 against Cory Thiesse (Duluth, USA). Kitazawa won 1-0 against Gina Aitken (Aberdeen, SCO). Kitazawa went on to lose 7-5 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER). Kitazawa lost 10-4 to Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN). Kitazawa lost 8-4 to Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) where Kitazawa responded with a 8-1 win over Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN). Kitazawa went on to lose 7-3 against Alzbeta Zelingrova (Prague, CZE). Kitazawa responded with a 9-5 win over Marianne Roervik (Oslo, NOR). Kitazawa went on to lose 11-3 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI). Kitazawa lost 1-0 to Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Kitazawa earned 23.264 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 35 of the event schedule, Kitazawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Kitazawa 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

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

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (Photo: World Curling) took down the reigning gold medalists to stay on pace for top spot in the pool.

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