Liu5-1 at 2019 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

Harbin, China

Fourth
Yilun
Jiang

SKIP
Sijia
Liu

Second
Ziqi
Dong

Lead
Xindi
Jiang

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	12.03
PA/G:	3.91
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.62

Sijia Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 5-1 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Min Ji Kim (Chuncheon City, KOR) 6-5, then won 25-0 against Mubarkah Al-Abdulla (Doha, QAT) and 9-0 against Sitora Alliyarova (Almaty, KAZ). Liu won 12-3 against Ling-Yue Hung (Hong Kong, HKG), then won 12-1 against Tahli Gill (Brisbane, AUS). Liu went on to lose 8-7 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Liu earned 11.870 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships. Liu move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 9.876 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 48th overall with 88.619 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Liu ranks 30th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 74.956 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

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