Ogawa3-5 at 2018 Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Tatsuya
Ogawa

Third
Yuya
Takigahira

Second
Kazuki
Yoshihawa

Lead
Tomoya
Ogawa

Tatsuya Ogawa (Hokkaido, JPN) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogawa defeated Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN) 7-6, then went on to lose 9-5 against Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). Ogawa lost 6-4 to Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) where Ogawa responded with a 6-4 win over Minori Suzuki (Aomori, JPN). Ogawa went on to lose 9-7 against Yoshiro Shimizu (Karuizawa, JPN). Ogawa lost 8-5 to Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN). Ogawa lost 11-4 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) where Ogawa responded with a 10-3 win over Suzuki in their final qualifying round match.

Ogawa earned 1.069 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 85 spots the World Ranking Standings into 457th place overall with 1.654 total points. Ogawa ranks 391st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.069 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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