Sasaki2-1 at 2022 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Ayuna
Aoki

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) 6-3, then won 9-7 against Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN). Sasaki went on to lose 9-7 against Kerri Einarson (Gimli, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 3.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sasaki gained 0.75 points improving upon their best 5 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 81stplace overall with 36.538 total points. Sasaki ranks 61st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	14	22	0	0.389	3-5	1-6	0-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	283	200	216	7.07	7.63	-0.57	4.59	4.77	1.54	1.60	0.64

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	140	150	59	6	3-2	8-3	28-9	1.07	0.42	0.29	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	143	50	157	12	0-2	5-11	6-30	0.35	1.10	0.56	0.24

2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, Seul-Bee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

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