Kanai2-3 at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

SKIP
Ken
Kanai

Third
Taiichiro
Okada

Second
Hideki
Yoshii

Lead
Tsutomu
Asano

Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanai defeated Shun Tanaka (Tokyo, JPN) 7-5, then went on to lose 7-3 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Kanai responded with a 7-1 win over Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Kanai went on to lose 4-3 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Kanai lost 6-4 to Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kanai earned 1.137 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 185 spots the World Ranking Standings into 453rd place overall with 1.137 total points. Kanai ranks 397th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.137 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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