Ogihara

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Akira
Ohtsuka

Second
Manabu
Aoki

Lead
Naoki
Kaneko

Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Ogihara finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogihara defeated Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN) 6-5, then won 7-3 against Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 6-0 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Ogihara responded with a 6-3 win over Shun Tanaka (Tokyo, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 9-8 against Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ogihara earned 1.706 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Ogihara move up 16 spots after posting a net gain of 1.19 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 174th overall with 15.736 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ogihara ranks 166th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.704 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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