Yanagisawa2-3 at 2023 Insitu Players Open

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) 5-4, then won 8-7 against Daniel Hocevar (Toronto, ON). Yanagisawa went on to lose 7-6 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Yanagisawa lost 5-4 to Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, ON). Yanagisawa lost 4-3 to Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Yanagisawa earned 5.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 12 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 17th to 18th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 166.906 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 40.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	37	0	0.570	18-10	9-2	8-8	2-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	661	514	391	7.78	5.92	1.86	4.58	3.89	1.70	1.52	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	329	383	69	55	11-0	26-3	76-9	1.16	0.21	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	332	131	322	46	4-4	8-23	16-60	0.39	0.97	0.57	0.25

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