Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa2-3 at 2018 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Fourth
Yuki
Kuronuma

Third
Takuya
Saito

Second
Hiroto
Makiguchi

SKIP
Tsubasa
Nakagawa

Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa defeated Motoyuki Fujisaki (Obihiro, JPN) 4-3, then went on to lose 4-3 against Suguru Tsukamoto (Karuizawa, JPN). Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa responded with a 6-4 win over Azusa Arakawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa went on to lose 7-4 against Japan's Kotaro Tani. Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa lost 7-6 to Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa earned 0.985 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 220 spots the World Ranking Standings into 400th place overall with 0.985 total points. Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa ranks 81st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.985 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

2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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