CHAMPION: Abe Wins ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

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Haruto
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Shinya
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Tsuruga

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 8-3 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final Abe advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship, held January 27 - February 4 in Tokoro, Japan.

Abe finished 7-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Kouhei Sato (Tohoku, JPN) 8-2, then won 10-2 against Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) and 8-1 against Yanagisawa. Abe won 9-3 against Japan's Ryutaro Tani, then won 6-5 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) and 11-10 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Abe won 9-5 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship Championship title, Abe earned 30.000 world rankings points. Abe move up 22 spots after posting a net gain of 15.906 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 47th overall with 66.563 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 66.563 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

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