Tanaka2-2 at Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Aomori, Japan

Fourth
Emiko
Koyama

Third
Aki
Goto

Second
Haruka
Kihara

SKIP
Misaki
Tanaka

Misaki Tanaka (Aomori, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10 team Obihiro ICE Gold Cup qualifying round, held September 13 - 14 in , . In their opening game, Tanaka lost 6-4 to Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 8-2 win over Miki Hayashi (Sapporo, JPN). Tanaka won 13-1 against Yuri Suzuki (Obihiro, JPN). Tanaka went on to lose 5-3 against Asuka Kanai (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup Championship title, Tanaka earned 8.923 world rankings points along with the $6,016CDN first prize cheque, moving up 78 spots the World Ranking Standings into 153rd place overall with 10.438 total points. Tanaka ranks 46th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.923 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	2	0	0.714	2-0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	47	48	27	10.21	5.74	4.47	5.53	3.62	1.85	1.59	0.85

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	20	31	5	2	3-0	1-1	3-0	1.55	0.25	0.39	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	27	17	22	2	1-0	1-3	1-2	0.63	0.81	0.64	0.41

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