De Jia Zou (Beijing, CHN) won 9-2 over Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan. of the 2019 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan; De Jia Zou (Beijing, CHN) won 9-2 over Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan. Zou lost
8-4 to
Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Zou finished 4-0 in the 10 team
ADVICS Cup qualifying round, held August 9 - 12, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Zou defeated
Kei Kamada (Sapporo, JPN) 8-5, then won
7-5 against
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) and
6-5 against
Matsumura. Zou won
6-3 against
Daiki Shikano (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the ADVICS Cup, Zou earn
17.331 world rankings points and 1874CDN, remaining in 28th place overall on the
World Ranking Standings with
120.104 total points. Zou ranks 7th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
19.159 points earned so far this season.
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