NAGANO — Despite falling on a planned triple flip, Miki Ando was well-positioned for her second Grand Prix title of the season after finishing second in the short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday night at Big Hat.

Skating to Mozart's "Requiem," Ando opened with a nice triple lutz-triple loop combination jump before the tumble, but recovered to hit a double axel and execute an excellent spiral sequence to finish less than one point behind leader Ashley Wagner of the United States.

Ando, who won the Rostelecom Cup title two weeks ago in Moscow, totaled 56.22 points, while Wagner was in first on 56.54.