Liu6-5 at 2014 World Curling Championship

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
De Xin
Ba

Lead
Jia Liang
Zang

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 6-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu lost 11-5 to Johnny Jahr (Hamburg, GER), then responded with a 11-8 win over Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO). Liu went on to lose 9-6 against Kevin Koe (Edmonton, CAN). Liu responded with a 6-5 win over Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Liu went on to lose 5-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Snaroen, NOR). Liu responded with a 5-4 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Liu went on to lose 7-6 against Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Liu responded with a 6-4 win over Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Liu won 8-4 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA), then won 6-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Liu went on to lose 6-5 against Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Liu earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Liu move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 4.25 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 179.680 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Liu ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 112.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	32	0	0.670	28-16	11-12	10-14	2-3	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	784	613	470	7.82	5.99	1.82	4.89	3.85	1.60	1.56	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	383	430	89	55	5-0	26-7	95-13	1.12	0.23	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	401	183	381	44	3-7	15-21	27-77	0.46	0.95	0.56	0.29

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