Yanagisawa Finishes Fourth at 2023 Pan-Continental Championships

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	9
Record:	3W - 6L
PF/G:	7.47
PA/G:	7.87
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.21
Force Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 8-7 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada; Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 8-7 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. Yanagisawa lost 8-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Yanagisawa finished 3-4 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa lost 7-5 to ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), droppimg another game, 6-5 to Jay Merchant (Melbourne, AUS). Yanagisawa lost 11-2 to Gushue. Yanagisawa lost 10-7 to Dropkin where Yanagisawa responded with a 9-3 win over Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA). Yanagisawa won 10-1 against Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen, then won 9-5 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Yanagisawa take home 15.000 world rankings points. Yanagisawa move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 13.502 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 34th overall with 91.491 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yanagisawa ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 79.500 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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