Raju1-3 at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
P.N.
Raju

Third
Girithar
Anthay

Second
Sudheer
Reddy

Lead
Kishan
Vasant

P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Raju lost 7-4 to Japan's Yuta Fuse, droppimg another game, 8-2 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Raju lost 8-1 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) where Raju responded with a 4-3 win over Japan's Koki Ogiwara in their final qualifying round match.

Raju earned 0.825 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 232nd place overall with 3.638 total points. Raju ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	12	20	0	0.375	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
2026	239	161	211	6.74	8.83	-2.09	3.93	5.02	1.71	1.76	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	128	109	84	15	5-3	8-5	15-11	0.85	0.66	0.25	0.41

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	111	52	127	10	0-5	6-8	7-27	0.47	1.14	0.41	0.30

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
Kitami, JPN
2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
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Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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