Tonuma2-2 at Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Kouki
Tonuma

Third
Shusaku
Takata

Second
Hidetaka
Otani

Lead
Ken
Suehiro

Kouki Tonuma (Tokyo, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tonuma defeated Minato Hayamizu (Nagano, JPN) 10-3, then won 7-2 against Japan's Shun Ichitsubo. Tonuma went on to lose 4-1 against Kaito Fujii (Miyota, JPN). Tonuma lost 9-2 to Hiroki Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Tonuma earned 2.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Minebea Mitsumi Cup, moving up 30 spots the World Ranking Standings into 233rd place overall with 5.750 total points. Tonuma ranks 112th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	7	5	0	0.583	1-0	2-4	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	79	62	62	7.85	7.85	0.00	4.18	5.57	1.88	1.41	0.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	41	49	24	0	1-2	5-0	11-1	1.20	0.59	0.41	0.39

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	38	13	38	2	1-0	0-0	2-10	0.34	1.00	0.64	0.21

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
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Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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