Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) lost 9-4 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. of the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China; Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) lost 9-4 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 China Open in Tianjin, China. Zou lost
6-3 to
Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Zou finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou defeated
Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) 9-3, then won
5-4 against
Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) and
7-2 against
Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Zou went on to lose
5-4 against
Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Zou lost
6-2 to
Kim where Zou responded with a
7-4 win over
Calvert. Zou went on to lose
7-2 against
Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) in their final qualifying round match.
With their fourth place finish at the China Open, Zou take home
13.922 world rankings points along with 3778CDN, remaining in 37th place overall on the
World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.828 after improving upon their best so far this season. Zou ranks 37th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
85.692 points earned so far this season.
