Kanda Runner-Up at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Hiromu
Otani

Second
Kizuki
Ryokawa

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) lost 4-2 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Kanda won 7-5 over Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals

Kanda are currently 3-1 in the 12 team Keijinkai Rizing Cup qualifying round, held January 11 - 13, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Kanda lost 6-1 to Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN), then responded with a 7-3 win over Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN). Kanda won 6-0 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN), then won 4-3 against Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN). In their next game, Kanda plays.

With their runner-up finish at the Keijinkai Rizing Cup, Kanda take home 8.340 world rankings points along with the $2,967CDN prize. Kanda move up 60 spots after posting a net gain of 7.412 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 163rd overall with 17.430 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kanda ranks 160th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.574 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	4	2	0	0.667	1-0	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	42	27	21	6.43	5.00	1.43	4.29	3.81	1.50	1.31	1.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	24	17	8	6	0-0	2-0	2-1	0.71	0.33	0.22	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	18	10	13	2	0-0	1-0	1-4	0.56	0.72	0.56	0.39

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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