Xu4-0 at 2025 WCT Belgium Men's Challenge

SKIP
Xiao Ming
Xu

Third
Xueqing
Fei

Second
Zhi Yu
Wang

Lead
Zhichao
Li

Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN) finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Xu defeated Matias Hanninen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) 4-2, then won 7-3 against Sebastiaan Dalle (Zemst, BEL) and 9-2 against Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA). Xu won 7-2 against Jari Butzmann (Geising, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the WCT Belgium Men's Challenge Championship title, Xu earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque. Xu move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 4.875 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 26th overall with 129.966 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Xu ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 126.875 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

2025: Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhi Yu Wang, Zhichao Li, Bohao Yang, Weidong Tan
BEI JING, CHN
2024: Timothy Verreycken
Jeroen Spruyt, Timothy Verreycken, Tuur Vermeiren, Daan Yskoud , Wim Neeleman
Zemst, BEL
2023: Ugurcan Karagoz
Ugurcan Karagoz, Muhhamet Haydar Demirel, Muhammed Zeki Ucan, Orhun Yuce
Erzurum, TUR

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