Japan's Naoki Kanazawa4-3 at 2022 Hokkaido Curling Championships

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Naoki
Kanazawa

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

Second
Takuto
Ouchi

Lead
Ryo
Aoki

Japan's Naoki Kanazawa finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Naoki Kanazawa defeated Japan's Toa Nakahara 9-2, then went on to lose 6-1 against Japan's Masaki Ishikawa. Japan's Naoki Kanazawa responded with a 5-4 win over Japan's Kohsuke Hirata. Japan's Naoki Kanazawa won 8-3 against Japan's Ryouichi Saitou. Japan's Naoki Kanazawa went on to lose 7-3 against Japan's Yuya Takigahira. Japan's Naoki Kanazawa lost 8-3 to Go Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) where Japan's Naoki Kanazawa responded with a 9-1 win over Japan's Harunobu Kawahira in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Naoki Kanazawa earned 0.900 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 67 spots the World Ranking Standings into 379th place overall with 1.018 total points. Japan's Naoki Kanazawa ranks 316th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	45	38	31	8.44	6.89	1.56	4.89	3.78	1.73	1.82	1.33

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	23	27	6	4	2-0	1-1	4-0	1.17	0.26	0.37	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	22	11	25	2	0-1	1-2	2-4	0.50	1.14	0.46	0.32

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