Japan's Junpei Kanda5-0 at 2015 Minebea Cup

Japan

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Naoki
Iwanaga

Second
Shota
Iino

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	7.67
PA/G:	3.72
Hammer Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	1.00
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Japan's Junpei Kanda finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Junpei Kanda defeated Japan's Kenji Iwasaki 7-2, then won 6-4 against Japan's Tasuhiro Morita and 5-1 against Japan's Hiroshi Fukui. Japan's Junpei Kanda won 10-1 against Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN), then won 4-3 against Japan's Ryo Ogihara in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Minebea Cup, Japan's Junpei Kanda take home 5.596 world rankings points along with the $1,089CDN prize, moving up 106 spots the World Ranking Standings into 196th place overall with 7.062 total points. Japan's Junpei Kanda ranks 123rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.596 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

2025: Kotaro Noguchi
Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Hiromasa Yonehara
, JPN
2023: Kaito Fujii
Kaito Fujii, Miharu Kubota, Ruki Yokoyama, Ryouga Sakurai
Miyota, JPN
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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