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, remaining in 21st place overall on the World Ranking Standings 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
2026	23	20	0	0.535	0-1	2-2	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	321	213	218	6.64	6.79	-0.16	4.08	4.27	1.63	1.59	1.65

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	156	149	50	27	1-1	8-2	39-4	0.96	0.32	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	165	64	168	26	3-2	4-12	7-38	0.39	1.02	0.47	0.24

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Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
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Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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