Takeda/Takeda3-2 at Obihiro Spring Cup

Tomoko Takeda/Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takeda/Takeda lost 11-3 to Arisa Funaki/Yuto Kamada (Aomori, JPN), then responded with a 7-6 win over Aone Nakamura/Hinata Michitani (Sapporo, JPN). Takeda/Takeda won 7-2 against Yuri Suzuki/Kazushi Niino (Obihiro, JPN), then won 7-6 against Hikari Yoshino/Ayumu Ohta (Obihiro, JPN). Takeda/Takeda went on to lose 8-3 against Moka Tanaka/Koei Sato (Obihiro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Takeda/Takeda earned 0.900 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 1 of the event schedule, Takeda/Takeda did not improve upon their best events, dropping from th to 341st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Takeda/Takeda ranks 188th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	3	2	0	0.600	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	37	27	33	7.30	8.92	-1.62	4.59	5.41	1.59	1.65	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	21	22	10	0	0-0	2-0	6-1	1.05	0.48	0.38	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	16	5	23	0	0-0	0-4	0-4	0.31	1.44	0.27	0.31

Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.