Abe

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Minori
Suzuki

Abe are currently . In their opening game, Abe plays Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) on Tuesday at 10:20pm Japan's Ryuji Shibaya on Wednesday at 5am and Japan's Tomonori Matsuzawa at 10:20pm Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) on Tuesday at 10:20pm Japan's Ryuji Shibaya on Wednesday at 5am, Japan's Tomonori Matsuzawa at 10:20pm Naomasa Takeda (Hokkaido, JPN) on Thursday at 5am and Japan's Ichiei Koana at 10:20pm and Japan's Ichiei Koana at 10:20pm.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Curling Championships, Abe take home 5.500 world rankings points. Abe move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of -1.629 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 62nd overall with 62.889 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 67th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	21	11	0	0.656	5-3	7-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	238	225	145	9.45	6.09	3.36	5.04	4.08	1.88	1.49	0.88

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	118	156	32	15	5-0	13-4	31-3	1.32	0.27	0.48	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	120	69	113	6	3-1	6-5	9-24	0.58	0.94	0.61	0.32

Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.