Liu7-1 at 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
Jia Liang
Zang

Lead
Tian Yu
Zhang

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ) 7-2, then won 7-5 against Ian Palangio (Sydney, AUS) and 7-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Liu went on to lose 6-4 against SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR). Liu responded with a 10-5 win over Hong Kong's Jason Chang. Liu won 6-4 against Randie Shen (Taipei, TPE), then won 10-2 against Abdulrahman Nabil (Doha, QA) and 7-3 against Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZ) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Liu take home 15.675 world rankings points. For week 13 of the event schedule, Liu did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Liu ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

Gyeonggi's Team Gim Eun-ji (Photo: Olympics) will represent Korea for a third straight season at the international level.

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