Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto2-3 at 2015 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Shinpei
Matsumoto

Third
Arima
Toshikazu

Second
Tsuyoshi
Morimoto

Lead
Naoto
Tateishi

Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto lost 9-4 to Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN), then responded with a 5-4 win over Japan's Kazuhisa Unoura. Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto went on to lose 8-2 against Japan's Arihito Kasahara. Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto lost 6-2 to Japan's Satoshi Okada where Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto responded with a 6-5 win over Japan's Hideaki Nakamura in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto earned 0.305 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 213 spots the World Ranking Standings into 395th place overall with 0.305 total points. Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto ranks 213th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.305 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

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

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