Shuster into Karuizawa International Playoffs

USA's John Shuster (photo: Rich Harmer) plays Riki Yanagisawa in Saturday evening's semifinals. (6 pm Tokyo Time / 3 am CT) Shuster is joined by third Chris Plys, second Colin Hufman and lead John Landsteiner at the Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Eight men's and eight women's teams returned to the Japanese mountain resort city outside Tokyo for the first time since December 2019 as foreign teams also returned to Japan. In their opening game, Shuster defeated ByeongJin Jeong of Seoul, South Korea 6-4, then won 10-1 against Hiroyuki Honda of Kitami, Japan. Shuster wrapped up pool play in their 4-team pool with a 7-3 win over Yusuke Morozumi of Karuizawa.