Japan advanced to the breakoff of the Women's Curling World Championship, where they lost to the powerhouse Canada 4-6 in extra time and did not advance to the semi-finals.
The Women's Curling World Championship in Sweden was a round-robin qualifying league with 13 participating teams, and Japan representative Rocco Solare advanced to the playoffs in sixth place with a record of 4 wins and 7 losses after winning four consecutive games in the final stages.
On the 5th, Japan faced Canada, the third-place qualifier in the semi-finals, and in the sixth end, 6-on-25, Japan had multiple scoring chances, and Skip Fujisawa Satsuki's last shot was missed, bringing the Canadian Stone closer to the center of the house and conceding one goal.
After that, they exchanged one goal at a time, and in the 3th end, with the opponent leading 2-2, the Japan of the advantageous back-attack tried to score multiple goals, but Skip Fujisawa's last shot tied the game with only one goal, and the game went into overtime.
In the 6th end of extra time, Japan, Fujisawa tried to flick out Canada's number one stone with his last shot, but he couldn't.
In this end Japan, they lost to Canada 1-1 after conceding two goals and did not advance to the semi-finals.
After the match, skip Satsuki Fujisawa expressed his frustration, saying, "The reason for the loss was that I couldn't score my shot in the 10th end.
Lead Yurika Yoshida said, "We kept creating chances to win and ended up losing, and if we focus only on the result, we will be pessimistic, but what we have done was not bad. I was talking.
Yuko Suzuki, the second, said, "It was a close match for a long time, but it was unfortunate that Canada scored well in the end, but we did our best.
Third-team player YOSHIDA Chinami praised the tournament for the 1 matches they played in, saying, "I think we would have been eliminated from the qualifiers if we kept losing at the beginning of the qualifying rounds and lacking the underlying strength, but I would like to say that it was a good tournament because I was able to feel that I have gained the strength to improve from there."