Bronze for Watanabe at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

SKIP
Tomoya
Watanabe

Third
Akira
Otsuka

Second
Naoki
Kaneko

Lead
Hiromasa
Yamamoto

Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) won 5-3 over Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan; Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) won 5-3 over Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. Watanabe lost 6-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan;

Watanabe finished 3-2 in the 12 team Keijinkai Rizing Cup qualifying round, held January 11 - 13, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Watanabe defeated Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) 6-1, then went on to lose 5-3 against Shun Tanaka (Tokyo, JPN). Watanabe lost 7-1 to Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN) where Watanabe responded with a 5-4 win over Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN). Watanabe won 9-8 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Keijinkai Rizing Cup, Watanabe earn 6.445 world rankings points and 1424CDN. Watanabe move up 143 spots after posting a net gain of 6.119 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 240th overall with 8.300 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Watanabe ranks 232nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.646 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	3	0	0.625	1-2	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
2020	57	40	39	7.02	6.84	0.18	4.56	4.56	1.54	1.50	0.88

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	31	27	15	4	0-0	2-1	7-2	0.87	0.48	0.33	0.35

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	26	13	24	1	0-0	1-2	1-5	0.50	0.92	0.53	0.38

Kerri Einarson (photo: Andrew Klaver / Curling Canada) was able to get by Ontario's Rachel Homan to claim her second-consecutive Scotties title.

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