Wakaba Matsuda/Shunya Matsuda (Sapporo, JPN) won 7-5 over Arisa Funaki/Yuto Kamada (Aomori, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Obihiro Spring Cup in Obihiro, Japan. of the Obihiro Spring Cup in Obihiro, Japan; Wakaba Matsuda/Shunya Matsuda (Sapporo, JPN) won 7-5 over Arisa Funaki/Yuto Kamada (Aomori, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Obihiro Spring Cup in Obihiro, Japan. Matsuda/Matsuda lost
9-5 to
Moka Tanaka/Koei Sato (Obihiro, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Matsuda/Matsuda finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsuda/Matsuda defeated
Yuina Miura/Taiki Kudo (Sapporo, JPN) 6-3, then went on to lose
7-5 against
Miyu Ueno/Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Matsuda/Matsuda responded with a
11-7 win over
Yumeka Mori/Haruto Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Matsuda/Matsuda won
6-4 against
Chihiro Yuki/Genji Ohara (Obihiro, JPN), then won
10-4 against
Haruko Sakurai/Takanobu Iwasaki (Obihiro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Obihiro Spring Cup, Matsuda/Matsuda earn
3.600 world rankings points and 750CDN. Matsuda/Matsuda gained 0.656 points improving upon their best 1 events, though dropped 212 spots on the
World Ranking Standings into 212thplace overall with
0.656 total points. Matsuda/Matsuda ranks 375th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
0.000 points earned so far this season.
