Fujisawa5-1 at 2018 Curling World Cup Omaha

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	8.65
PA/G:	5.77
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.73
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) finished 5-1 in the 8 team Curling World Cup Omaha qualifying round, held December 5 - 9, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Fujisawa defeated Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE) 6-5, then won 10-2 against Ying Yang (Harbin, CHN) and 7-6 against Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO). Fujisawa won 5-4 against Hasselborg, then won 8-2 against Yang. Fujisawa went on to lose 5-2 against Muirhead in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling World Cup Omaha Championship title, Fujisawa earned 56.521 world rankings points along with the $36,623CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 317.456 total points. Fujisawa ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 189.341 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	6	1	0	0.857	2-0	3-0	3-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	52	45	30	8.65	5.77	2.88	4.81	4.62	1.80	1.25	0.58

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	28	31	9	2	0-0	4-0	6-0	1.11	0.32	0.38	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	24	14	21	1	0-1	2-0	2-3	0.58	0.88	0.73	0.33

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