Tomoki Hiwatashi had a very respectable showing in his senior Grand Prix debut last weekend with a fifth-place finish at the Internationaux de France in Grenoble.
Last season’s world junior champion roared back from a poor short program that saw him in 10th place, to jump up to fifth in the final standings.
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