Zou2-10 at 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Zhilin
Shao

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 2-10 in the 13 team Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship qualifying round, held March 30 - April 7, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Zou lost 9-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), droppimg another game, 9-6 to Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN). Zou lost 8-6 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN). Zou lost 8-2 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) where Zou responded with a 9-8 win over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). Zou went on to lose 7-1 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Zou lost 10-5 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Zou lost 7-5 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) where Zou responded with a 8-3 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR). Zou went on to lose 9-6 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Zou lost 6-4 to Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Zou lost 8-4 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 8.608 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Zou move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 6.015 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 52nd overall with 83.254 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Zou ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 83.254 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	2	10	0	0.167	0-3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	109	60	92	5.50	8.44	-2.94	3.85	4.86	1.43	1.74	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	59	54	23	8	0-0	1-2	15-5	0.92	0.39	0.31	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	50	6	69	6	0-4	0-4	1-9	0.12	1.38	0.56	0.10

Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing cap off a 7-1 win over Warriner/Richard to go undefeated in winning their opening event of the 2020/21 curling season.

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