Raju1-3 at Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Hyderabad, India

SKIP
P.N.
Raju

Third
Girithar
Anthay

Second
Sudheer
Reddy

Lead
Kishan
Vasant

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
PF/G:	3.64
PA/G:	15.91
Hammer Efficiency:	0.08
Steal Defense:	0.77
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Raju lost 12-0 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a 6-5 win over Eito Nakagawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Raju went on to lose 8-1 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Raju lost 10-1 to Koki Ogiwara (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Raju earned 0.863 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 232nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 0.038 after improving upon their best so far this season. Raju ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.863 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB

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