Kanda4-4 at 2018 Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Shota
Iino

Second
Shinya
Iwamoto

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanda lost 3-0 to Yoshiro Shimizu (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 6-5 to Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) where Kanda responded with a 7-3 win over Minori Suzuki (Aomori, JPN). Kanda won 6-4 against Tatsuya Ogawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 6-4 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Kanda responded with a 6-4 win over Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 9-5 against Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). Kanda responded with a 9-6 win over Atsushi Kamigochi (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kanda earned 1.425 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 221st place overall with 16.509 total points. Kanda ranks 167th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.386 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

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