Unoura1-7 at 2018 Japan Curling Championship

Osaka, Japan

SKIP
Kazuhisa
Unoura

Third
Tomoaki
Mizuno

Second
Akira
Kageyama

Lead
Masahiro
Aisaka

Games:	8
Record:	1W - 7L
PF/G:	4.86
PA/G:	8.47
Hammer Efficiency:	0.17
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN) finished 1-7 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Unoura lost 7-6 to Tatsuya Ogawa (Hokkaido, JPN), droppimg another game, 5-4 to Atsushi Kamigochi (Hokkaido, JPN). Unoura lost 9-8 to Yoshiro Shimizu (Karuizawa, JPN) where Unoura responded with a 6-5 win over Minori Suzuki (Aomori, JPN). Unoura went on to lose 10-2 against Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). Unoura lost 9-3 to Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN). Unoura lost 6-4 to Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Unoura lost 10-2 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Unoura earned 0.356 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 288th place overall with 10.034 total points. Unoura ranks 256th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.436 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

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