Mercier2-2 at 2025 WCT Belgium Men's Challenge

Megeve, France

Fourth
Quentin
Morard

SKIP
Eddy
Mercier

Second
Killian
Gaudin

Lead
Yannick
Valvassori

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	6.86
PA/G:	7.14
Hammer Efficiency:	0.13
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.44

Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mercier defeated Jari Butzmann (Geising, GER) 9-2, then went on to lose 6-1 against Matias Hanninen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Mercier lost 9-2 to Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN) where Mercier responded with a 7-6 win over Sebastiaan Dalle (Zemst, BEL) in their final qualifying round match.

Mercier earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 173rd place overall with 8.782 total points. Mercier ranks 159th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.313 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	11	15	0	0.423	2-0	1-2	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	189	123	159	6.51	8.41	-1.90	4.13	4.76	1.58	1.77	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	90	80	54	5	2-0	5-7	11-7	0.89	0.60	0.21	0.37

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	99	43	105	16	1-4	3-7	8-20	0.43	1.06	0.46	0.26

2025: Xiao Ming Xu
Xiao Ming Xu, Xueqing Fei, Zhi Yu Wang, Zhichao Li, Bohao Yang, Weidong Tan
BEI JING, CHN
2024: Timothy Verreycken
Jeroen Spruyt, Timothy Verreycken, Tuur Vermeiren, Daan Yskoud , Wim Neeleman
Zemst, BEL
2023: Ugurcan Karagoz
Ugurcan Karagoz, Muhhamet Haydar Demirel, Muhammed Zeki Ucan, Orhun Yuce
Erzurum, TUR

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