Raju1-3 at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Hyderabad, India

SKIP
P.N.
Raju

Third
Girithar
Anthay

Second
Sudheer
Reddy

Lead
Kishan
Vasant

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
PF/G:	3.79
PA/G:	8.97
Hammer Efficiency:	0.13
Steal Defense:	0.39
Force Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Efficiency:	0.00

P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Raju lost 7-4 to Japan's Yuta Fuse, droppimg another game, 8-2 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Raju lost 8-1 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) where Raju responded with a 4-3 win over Japan's Koki Ogiwara in their final qualifying round match.

Raju earned 0.825 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 213th place overall with 3.638 total points. Raju ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	11	13	0	0.458	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
2026	186	140	154	7.53	8.28	-0.75	4.14	4.84	1.82	1.71	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	96	92	62	10	5-3	7-2	13-9	0.96	0.65	0.29	0.40

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	90	48	92	9	0-2	6-7	7-20	0.53	1.02	0.44	0.32

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Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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