Abe1-4 at 2024 Aberdeen International Curling Championship

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe lost 7-6 to Jan Iseli (Solothun, SUI), droppimg another game, 9-4 to Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI) where Abe responded with a 8-5 win over Orrin Carson (Stirling, SCO). Abe went on to lose 7-6 against Kyle Waddell (Hamilton, SCO). Abe lost 5-4 to Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Abe earned 2.063 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Abe move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.688 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 48th overall with 68.251 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 68.251 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	0.28

2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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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