Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-0 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-0 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Abe lost
8-5 to
Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Abe finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated
Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) 9-2, then won
8-0 against
Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) and
8-1 against
Sato. Abe won
10-1 against
Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Abe earn
9.000 world rankings points and 150000CDN. Abe move up 9 spots after posting a net gain of 8.062 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 51st overall with
67.625 total points on the
World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 16th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
11.250 points earned so far this season.
