Zou2-10 at 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Zhilin
Shao

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 2-10 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou lost 9-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), droppimg another game, 9-6 to Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN). Zou lost 8-6 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN). Zou lost 8-2 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) where Zou responded with a 9-8 win over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). Zou went on to lose 7-1 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Zou lost 10-5 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Zou lost 7-5 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) where Zou responded with a 8-3 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR). Zou went on to lose 9-6 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Zou lost 6-4 to Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Zou lost 8-4 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 8.608 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Zou move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 6.015 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 52nd overall with 83.254 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Zou ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 83.254 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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