Liu6-2 at 2017 Qinghai International

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
Dongxu
Jiang

Lead
Jia Liang
Zang

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 6-2 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) 9-6, then went on to lose 9-5 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Liu responded with a 7-4 win over Kristian Lindstroem (Lit, SWE). Liu won 6-3 against Zhi Yu Wang (Changchun, CHN), then won 8-2 against Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT) and 11-4 against Andrew Stopera (Chicago, IL). Liu won 9-4 against Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Liu went on to lose 9-8 against Greg Drummond (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Qinghai International, Liu take home 15.881 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize. Liu move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 11.114 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 16th overall with 327.162 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Liu ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 194.629 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

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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