Japan's Hiroshi Fukui3-2 at 2015 Minebea Cup

Japan

SKIP
Hiroshi
Fukui

Third
Kota
Onodera

Second
Ken
Suehiro

Lead
Syun
Tanaka

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	8.64
PA/G:	5.23
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.45

Japan's Hiroshi Fukui finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Hiroshi Fukui lost 6-5 to Japan's Ryo Ogihara, then responded with a 6-5 win over Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN). Japan's Hiroshi Fukui went on to lose 5-1 against Japan's Junpei Kanda. Japan's Hiroshi Fukui responded with a 10-5 win over Japan's Kenji Iwasaki. Japan's Hiroshi Fukui won 11-0 against Japan's Tasuhiro Morita in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Hiroshi Fukui earned 3.053 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Minebea Cup, moving up 243 spots the World Ranking Standings into 262nd place overall with 3.053 total points. Japan's Hiroshi Fukui ranks 145th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.053 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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