Kanda2-6 at 2017 Japan Curling Championships

Tokyo, Japan

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Naoki
Iwanaga

Second
Shinya
Iwamoto

Lead
Shota
Iino

Games:	8
Record:	2W - 6L
PF/G:	5.34
PA/G:	6.16
Hammer Efficiency:	0.18
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) finished 2-6 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanda lost 8-6 to Yuki Sawamukai (Hokkaido, JPN), then responded with a 6-2 win over Shingo Usui (Sapporo, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 6-5 against Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN). Kanda lost 5-3 to Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Kanda lost 9-3 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Kanda lost 5-2 to Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN). Kanda lost 7-6 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) where Kanda responded with a 8-3 win over Taisel Miura (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kanda earned 0.855 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 226th place overall with 16.915 total points. Kanda ranks 344th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.831 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

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