Matsumura3-5 at 2021 Olympic Qualification Event

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Yasumasa
Tanida

Lead
Shinya
Abe

Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Sixten Totzek (Munich, GER) 6-5, then went on to lose 11-3 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Matsumura lost 6-4 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) where Matsumura responded with a 6-5 win over SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Matsumura went on to lose 11-6 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Matsumura responded with a 11-5 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Matsumura went on to lose 9-4 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Matsumura lost 8-2 to Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

Matsumura earned 8.016 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 21 of the event schedule, Matsumura did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 16th to 19th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 185.427 total points. Matsumura ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 83.947 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	35	19	0	0.648	13-5	4-6	3-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	401	334	253	8.33	6.31	2.02	5.04	3.77	1.65	1.68	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	193	243	26	33	7-0	17-2	47-2	1.26	0.13	0.44	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	208	91	227	15	0-7	6-13	17-46	0.44	1.09	0.50	0.30

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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