Yanagisawa7-1 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 7-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Natsu Kikuchi (Hokkaido, JPN) 7-2, then went on to lose 7-6 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Yanagisawa responded with a 6-4 win over Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN). Yanagisawa won 7-6 against Ryutaro Tani (Tokyo, JPN), then won 11-9 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) and 7-6 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Yanagisawa won 10-8 against Rui Matsuura (Nagano, JPN), then won 7-5 against Maeda in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship Championship title, Yanagisawa earned 30.000 world rankings points. Yanagisawa move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 25.875 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 24th overall with 124.688 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yanagisawa ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 124.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	44	35	0	0.557	12-8	1-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	619	434	426	7.01	6.88	0.13	4.48	4.33	1.57	1.59	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	330	347	114	40	3-3	18-7	83-18	1.05	0.35	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	289	87	312	34	1-7	2-13	21-69	0.30	1.08	0.55	0.20

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