Fujisawa Reaches 2023 LGT World Women's Curling Championship Quarters

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) qualified for the 2023 LGT World Women's Curling Championship playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-4 against Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN). of the 2023 LGT World Women's Curling Championship in Sandviken, Sweden;

Fujisawa finished 7-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujisawa lost 7-6 to Madeleine Dupont (Hvidovre, DEN), droppimg another game, 11-2 to Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) where Fujisawa responded with a 9-8 win over Rebecca Morrison (Stirling, SCO). Fujisawa won 8-3 against Tabitha Peterson (Chaska, USA), then won 10-3 against Marianne Roervik (Oslo, NOR). Fujisawa went on to lose 7-4 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR). Fujisawa lost 5-4 to Anna Hasselborg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Fujisawa lost 7-3 to Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) where Fujisawa responded with a 7-4 win over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR). Fujisawa won 6-5 against Einarson, then won 7-1 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER) and 7-5 against Jessica Smith (Naseby, NZL) in their final qualifying round match.

Fujisawa earned 33.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the LGT World Women's Curling Championship. Fujisawa move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 22.5 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 295.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Fujisawa ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 295.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	61	31	0	0.663	24-10	7-10	3-5	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	730	603	447	8.26	6.12	2.14	4.90	4.01	1.68	1.53	1.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	360	412	100	53	14-2	26-3	82-15	1.14	0.28	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	370	191	347	26	2-4	15-16	31-81	0.52	0.94	0.54	0.34

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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