Zou Finishes Fourth at 2019 China Open

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Jiafeng
Tian

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) lost 9-4 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. of the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China; Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) lost 9-4 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. Zou lost 6-3 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Zou finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou defeated Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) 9-3, then won 5-4 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) and 7-2 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Zou went on to lose 5-4 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Zou lost 6-2 to Kim where Zou responded with a 7-4 win over Calvert. Zou went on to lose 7-2 against Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the China Open, Zou take home 13.922 world rankings points along with 3778CDN, remaining in 37th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.828 after improving upon their best so far this season. Zou ranks 37th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 85.692 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

2019: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Kijeong Lee, Hak Kyun Kim, Kibok Lee
Uiseong, KOR
2018: Sergei Glukhov
Sergei Glukhov, Artur Ali, Dmitry Mironov, Anton Kalalb
Sochi, RUS
2013: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, CAN

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