Japan's Toa Nakahara4-3 at 2022 Hokkaido Curling Championships

Japan

SKIP
Toa
Nakahara

Third
Hinata
Michitani

Second
Riku
Takemura

Lead
Yuta
Kimura

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	6.27
PA/G:	8.43
Hammer Efficiency:	0.32
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Japan's Toa Nakahara finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Toa Nakahara lost 9-2 to Japan's Naoki Kanazawa, then responded with a 6-5 win over Japan's Harunobu Kawahira. Japan's Toa Nakahara won 7-6 against Japan's Ryouichi Saitou. Japan's Toa Nakahara went on to lose 7-1 against Japan's Kohsuke Hirata. Japan's Toa Nakahara lost 6-3 to Go Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) where Japan's Toa Nakahara responded with a 7-5 win over Japan's Yuya Takigahira. Japan's Toa Nakahara won 6-5 against Japan's Masaki Ishikawa in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Toa Nakahara earned 0.900 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 149 spots the World Ranking Standings into 385th place overall with 0.900 total points. Japan's Toa Nakahara ranks 317th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	51	32	43	6.27	8.43	-2.16	4.12	4.71	1.52	1.79	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	23	26	7	1	1-0	0-1	6-0	1.13	0.30	0.32	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	28	6	36	5	0-1	1-4	0-6	0.21	1.29	0.42	0.14

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