Ma1-5 at 2019 Curling World Cup Jonkoping

SKIP
Xiu Yue
Ma

Third
Zhi
Ling

Second
Cheng
Kuo

Lead
Jingyuan
Wang

Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) finished 1-5 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ma lost 6-3 to Ross Paterson (Glasgow, SCO), droppimg another game, 6-3 to Matt Dunstone (Regina, CAN). Ma lost 10-6 to Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). Ma lost 7-6 to Paterson. Ma lost 9-2 to Dunstone where Ma responded with a 7-5 win over Walstad in their final qualifying round match.

Ma earned 2.729 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Ma move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.084 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 72nd overall with 56.151 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ma ranks 73rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.285 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

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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