Zang4-7 at 2015 World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Jia Liang
Zang

Third
De Jia
Zou

Second
De Xin
Ba

Lead
Qiang
Zou

Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN) finished 4-7 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zang lost 9-7 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), droppimg another game, 7-4 to Pat Simmons (Calgary, CAN) where Zang responded with a 6-2 win over Joel Retornaz (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Zang went on to lose 9-5 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Zang lost 7-4 to Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI) where Zang responded with a 8-7 win over Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Zang went on to lose 9-5 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Zang responded with a 8-3 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Zang went on to lose 8-7 against Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN). Zang responded with a 10-3 win over Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO). Zang went on to lose 7-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Zang earned 8.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Zang move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 6.125 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 89.230 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Zang ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 43.299 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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