Abe Finishes Fourth at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Second
Hayato
Sato

Lead
Haruto
Ouchi

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	7.50
PA/G:	5.91
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) lost 8-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) lost 8-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Abe lost 4-3 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan;

Abe finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR) 10-2, then won 5-4 against Japan's Kohsuke Hirata and 6-5 against Japan's Kaito Fujii. Abe won 6-3 against Japan's Takuma Makanae in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Abe take home 8.800 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 159.800 total points. Abe ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.800 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

2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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