Xu Reaches 2025 Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out Quarters

SKIP
Xiao Ming
Xu

Third
Xueqing
Fei

Second
Zhi Yu
Wang

Lead
Zhichao
Li

Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN) qualified for the 2025 Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-4 against Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB). of the 2025 Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Xu finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Xu defeated Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) 7-1, then won 7-5 against Hyojun Kim (Uiseong, KOR) and 6-5 against Josh Bryden (Regina, SK). Xu won 6-1 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN), then won 9-4 against Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Xu earned 13.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Curling Stadium Speedy Creek Shoot-out. Xu move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 9.375 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 140.750 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Xu ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 140.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	56	27	0	0.675	9-2	7-5	5-2	1-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	631	538	382	8.53	6.05	2.47	4.68	4.01	1.82	1.51	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	303	381	71	42	12-1	29-1	74-14	1.26	0.23	0.44	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	328	157	311	41	6-7	19-11	12-64	0.48	0.95	0.59	0.26

The Swiss Olympic rink (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) are off and running as they aim to top the podium in Cortina.

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