Bronze for Yamaguchi at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

Fourth
Riku
Yanagisawa

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	8.67
PA/G:	4.89
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.86
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 8-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 8-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Yamaguchi lost 6-4 to Japan's Kohsuke Hirata in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Yamaguchi finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) 8-2, then went on to lose 5-4 against Japan's Koki Ogiwara. Yamaguchi responded with a 9-2 win over Japan's Yuta Fuse. Yamaguchi won 6-4 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Yamaguchi earn 9.900 world rankings points and 1881CDN, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 23rd place overall with 150.713 total points. Yamaguchi ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	22	6	0	0.786	1-0	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	214	189	100	8.83	4.67	4.16	5.05	3.27	1.75	1.43	1.68

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	101	131	12	21	4-0	6-1	36-1	1.30	0.12	0.58	0.09

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	113	58	88	15	2-1	5-2	4-20	0.51	0.78	0.62	0.33

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2023: Yusuke Morozumi
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