Tsuruga3-4 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Kohane
Tsuruga

Third
Aone
Nakamura

Second
Rin
Suzuki

Lead
Kotoka
Segawa

Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tsuruga defeated Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) 7-5, then won 16-0 against Ayaka Shimba (Osaka, JPN). Tsuruga went on to lose 10-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Tsuruga lost 10-2 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN). Tsuruga lost 11-4 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Tsuruga lost 10-7 to Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) where Tsuruga responded with a 10-9 win over Kai Tsuchiya (Miyota, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Tsuruga earned 6.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Tsuruga move up 75 spots after posting a net gain of 6 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 145th overall with 7.500 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Tsuruga ranks 110th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	5	10	0	0.333	0-3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	117	88	105	7.52	8.97	-1.45	4.44	5.04	1.69	1.78	0.51

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	61	65	34	3	2-0	5-3	11-7	1.07	0.56	0.31	0.34

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	56	23	71	3	1-2	1-6	3-15	0.41	1.27	0.39	0.27

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (Photo: Stephen Fisher/World Curling) are semifinal bound after picking up an eighth victory in Fredericton.

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