Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa1-2 at Minebea Mitsumi Cup

Japan

SKIP
Hiroki
Hasegawa

Third
Kishiro
Kyo

Second
Ryohei
Maruyama

Lead
Kentaro
Hashimoto

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	9.12
PA/G:	7.35
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa lost 7-5 to Japan's Kotaro Noguchi, then responded with a 9-2 win over Japan's Ryutaro Tani. Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa went on to lose 5-4 against Japan's Kaito Fujii in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa earned 1.375 world rankings points for their Top 6 finish in the Minebea Mitsumi Cup. Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 0.857 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 139th overall with 10.713 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Japan's Hiroki Hasegawa ranks 96th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	6	4	0	0.600	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	71	67	49	9.44	6.90	2.54	4.79	4.23	1.97	1.63	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	33	47	12	3	2-0	4-2	8-2	1.42	0.36	0.47	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	38	20	37	4	0-0	2-3	6-7	0.53	0.97	0.58	0.26

2023: Kaito Fujii
Kaito Fujii, Miharu Kubota, Ruki Yokoyama, Ryouga Sakurai
Miyota, JPN
2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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