Hanninen1-3 at 2025 WCT Belgium Men's Challenge

SKIP
Matias
Hanninen

Third
Leo
Ouni

Second
Ville
Forsstroem

Lead
Jami
Heikkila

Matias Hanninen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hanninen lost 4-2 to Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN), then responded with a 6-1 win over Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA). Hanninen went on to lose 8-8 against Sebastiaan Dalle (Zemst, BEL). Hanninen lost 9-4 to Jari Butzmann (Geising, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Hanninen earned 4.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the WCT Belgium Men's Challenge, moving up 22 spots the World Ranking Standings into 140th place overall with 13.419 total points. Hanninen ranks 129th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	11	17	1	0.393	2-4	1-5	1-3	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	215	163	177	7.58	8.23	-0.65	4.47	4.74	1.70	1.74	0.79

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	115	117	65	8	2-2	10-6	19-8	1.02	0.57	0.29	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	100	46	112	9	1-0	4-12	8-24	0.46	1.12	0.44	0.27

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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