Onodera4-1 at 2017 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Kota
Onodera

Third
Ken
Suehiro

Second
Shun
Tanaka

Lead
Yuuta
Fujimoto

Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Onodera defeated Yasuhiro Sano (Morioka, JPN) 4-3, then went on to lose 5-4 against Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN). Onodera responded with a 7-5 win over Takefumi Yamashita (Kakogawa, JPN). Onodera won 6-2 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN), then won 10-6 against Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Onodera earned 3.316 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Minebea Mitsumi Cup, moving up 107 spots the World Ranking Standings into 310th place overall with 4.171 total points. Onodera ranks 137th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.316 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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