Minami Finishes Fourth at 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Mayu
Minami

Third
Kana
Ogawa

Second
Mizuki
Saito

Lead
Moe
Nomoto

Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) lost 6-5 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. of the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan; Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) lost 6-5 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. Minami lost 7-4 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan;

Minami finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Minami defeated Japan's Mika Okuyama 9-3, then won 8-3 against Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN). Minami went on to lose 8-2 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Minami lost 7-5 to Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Minami take home 10.000 world rankings points. For week 2 of the event schedule, Minami did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Minami 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

2024: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Yusuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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