Liu7-2 at 2014 Olympic Winter Games

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Jia Liang
Zang

Second
Xiao Ming
Xu

Lead
De Xin
Ba

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) 7-4, then won 9-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) and 5-4 against Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Liu won 11-7 against Johnny Jahr (Fuessen, GER). Liu went on to lose 6-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Liu responded with a 7-5 win over Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Liu won 9-6 against Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Liu went on to lose 9-8 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, CAN). Liu responded with a 6-5 win over David Murdoch (Stirling, UK) in their final qualifying round match.

Liu earned 25.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Olympic Winter Games. Liu move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 23.395 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 175.430 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Liu ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 108.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	32	0	0.670	28-16	11-12	10-14	2-3	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	784	613	470	7.82	5.99	1.82	4.89	3.85	1.60	1.56	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	383	430	89	55	5-0	26-7	95-13	1.12	0.23	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	401	183	381	44	3-7	15-21	27-77	0.46	0.95	0.56	0.29

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (Photo: World Curling) took down the reigning gold medalists to stay on pace for top spot in the pool.

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