2013 China Open (curling)

The 2013 China Open was held from September 18 to 24 in Tianjin, China.^[1][2]

2013 China Open
Host city	Tianjin, China
Dates	September 18–24
Men's winner	Team McEwen
Curling club	Fort Rouge CC, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Skip	Mike McEwen
Third	B. J. Neufeld
Second	Matt Wozniak
Lead	Denni Neufeld
Finalist	Liu Rui
Women's winner	Team Kim
Curling club	Gyeonggi-do CC, Gyeonggi-do
Skip	Kim Ji-sun
Third	Gim Un-chi
Second	Shin Mi-sung
Lead	Lee Seul-bee
Finalist	Chelsea Carey
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The Canadian representatives, Team McEwen, won the men's event, defeating China's Liu Rui 6–5 in the event final. The team, consisting of Mike McEwen, B. J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak and Denni Neufeld topped the round robin with a 6–1 record, only losing one game to Sweden's Oskar Eriksson. They then beat Scotland's Logan Gray to advance to the final where they faced China's Liu. The Canadian team led the game early 4–1 before the Chinese tied it up at five all after eight. Following a blank in the ninth end, the McEwen rink scored one in the tenth end to secure the victory.

On the women's side, South Korea's Team Kim defeated Canada's Team Carey 9–6 in the final. The team, with Kim Ji-sun, Gim Un-chi, Shin Mi-sung and Lee Seul-bee just narrowly qualified for the playoffs. After a 3–4 round robin record, the team from Gyeonggi-do beat the Chinese Jiang Yilun rink 9–6 in a tiebreaker to qualify. They then beat the undefeated Wang Bingyu Chinese rink 8–7 in the semifinal before taking on the Chelsea Carey rink in the final. After a tight first half, steals in ends six, seven and eight ultimately led to the Korean team's victory.

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[3]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Peter de Boer	Sean Becker	Scott Becker	Kenny Thomson	Auckland, New Zealand
Benoît Schwarz (Fourth)	Peter de Cruz (Skip)	Dominik Märki	Valentin Tanner	Geneva, Switzerland
Oskar Eriksson	Kristian Lindström	Markus Eriksson	Christoffer Sundgren	Karlstad, Sweden
Logan Gray	Glen Muirhead	Ross Paterson	Richard Woods	Stirling, Scotland
Liu Rui	Zang Jialiang	Xu Xiaoming	Ba Dexin	Harbin, China
Mike McEwen	B. J. Neufeld	Matt Wozniak	Denni Neufeld	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Rasmus Stjerne	Johnny Frederiksen	Mikkel Poulsen	Troels Harry	Hvidovre, Denmark
Thomas Ulsrud	Torger Nergård	Christoffer Svae	Håvard Vad Petersson	Oslo, Norway

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Team W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE Mike McEwen 6 1 – 59 39 33 25 3 11 Thomas Ulsrud 4 3 2–1; 1–0 50 45 32 32 6 8 Liu Rui 4 3 2–1; 0–1 57 41 32 24 0 13 Oskar Eriksson 4 3 1–2; 1–0 46 45 30 28 2 7 Logan Gray 4 3 1–2; 0–1 40 37 26 24 5 8 Peter de Cruz 3 4 – 40 41 29 27 4 11 Peter de Boer 2 5 – 35 54 24 30 6 5 Rasmus Stjerne 1 6 – 31 56 18 34 3 5

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).^[4]

Draw 1

Thursday, September 19, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
Peter de Boer	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike McEwen	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	0	3	X	9
Logan Gray	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Cruz	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	3
Rasmus Stjerne	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	X	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Oskar Eriksson	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	0	X	X	6
Liu Rui	2	0	0	2	2	3	0	3	X	X	12

Draw 2

Friday, September 20, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike McEwen	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	7
Peter de Cruz	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Oskar Eriksson	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	6
Thomas Ulsrud	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Liu Rui	3	0	1	0	4	2	X	X	X	X	10
Peter de Boer	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Logan Gray	0	2	1	1	2	3	X	X	X	X	9
Rasmus Stjerne	2	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	2

Draw 3

Friday, September 20, 6:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Logan Gray	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	8
Thomas Ulsrud	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Cruz	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	X	8
Liu Rui	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rasmus Stjerne	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	X	2
Oskar Eriksson	1	1	1	0	3	0	2	X	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike McEwen	0	3	1	0	1	3	2	X	X	X	10
Peter de Boer	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	3

Draw 4

Saturday, September 21, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rasmus Stjerne	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	X	8
Liu Rui	1	0	0	2	1	1	2	0	3	X	10

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Logan Gray	1	0	2	0	3	2	0	X	X	X	8
Peter de Boer	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Mike McEwen	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	9
Thomas Ulsrud	2	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Cruz	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	1	1	X	7
Oskar Eriksson	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	3

Draw 5

Sunday, September 22, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Oskar Eriksson	3	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	9
Mike McEwen	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	2	0	0	1	5	0	1	1	X	X	10
Rasmus Stjerne	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Boer	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	2	8
Peter de Cruz	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Liu Rui	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	2	X	X	7
Logan Gray	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2

Draw 6

Sunday, September 22, 6:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Boer	1	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	8
Rasmus Stjerne	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Liu Rui	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	8
Mike McEwen	0	2	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Oskar Eriksson	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	X	6
Logan Gray	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	6
Peter de Cruz	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	7

Draw 7

Monday, September 23, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Cruz	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4
Logan Gray	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Peter de Boer	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	2	7
Oskar Eriksson	2	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	1	7
Liu Rui	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Rasmus Stjerne	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	X	3
Mike McEwen	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	4	X	X	8

Tiebreaker

Monday, September 23, 6:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Oskar Eriksson	1	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	7
Logan Gray	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	3	10

Playoffs

Source:^[5]

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Mike McEwen	8
	4	Logan Gray	4
						1	Mike McEwen	6
						3	Liu Rui	5
	2	Thomas Ulsrud	4
	3	Liu Rui	6

	Bronze medal game
	4	Logan Gray	2
	2	Thomas Ulsrud	9

Semifinals

Tuesday, September 24, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike McEwen	2	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	X	X	8
Logan Gray	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	4
Liu Rui	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	X	6

Bronze medal game

Tuesday, September 24, 2:30 pm

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Logan Gray	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Thomas Ulsrud	0	3	1	1	1	1	2	0	X	X	9

Final

Tuesday, September 24, 2:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Mike McEwen	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	6
Liu Rui	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	5

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[6]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Kerry Barr	Rachael Simms	Rhiann Macleod	Barbara McPake	Stirling, Scotland
Chelsea Carey	Kristy McDonald	Kristen Foster	Lindsay Titheridge	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Anna Hasselborg	Karin Rudström	Agnes Knochenhauer	Zandra Flyg	Gävle, Sweden
Jiang Yilun	Wang Rui	Yao Mingyue	She Qiutong	Harbin, China
Jennifer Jones	Kaitlyn Lawes	Jill Officer	Dawn McEwen	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Kim Ji-sun	Gim Un-chi	Shin Mi-sung	Lee Seul-bee	Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Lene Nielsen	Helle Simonsen	Jeanne Ellegaard	Maria Poulsen	Hvidovre, Denmark
Wang Bingyu	Liu Yin	Yue Qingshuang	Zhou Yan	Harbin, China

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Team W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE Wang Bingyu 7 0 – 61 16 31 13 2 15 Jennifer Jones 5 2 – 53 42 28 27 3 5 Chelsea Carey 4 3 – 46 50 25 29 4 3 Jiang Yilun 3 4 1–0 42 55 28 30 2 5 Kim Ji-sun 3 4 0–1 48 54 30 30 2 10 Kerry Barr 2 5 1–1 45 52 30 33 2 10 Lene Nielsen 2 5 1–1 41 53 27 31 0 7 Anna Hasselborg 2 5 1–1 37 51 25 31 7 5

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).^[7]

Draw 1

Thursday, September 19, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Anna Hasselborg	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	6
Chelsea Carey	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	X	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wang Bingyu	2	1	0	3	0	0	5	X	X	X	11
Jiang Yilun	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Lene Nielsen	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Kerry Barr	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	X	X	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Ji-sun	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	X	X	5
Jennifer Jones	2	1	0	0	4	1	0	3	X	X	11

Draw 2

Thursday, September 19, 6:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wang Bingyu	1	1	2	3	0	0	X	X	X	X	7
Lene Nielsen	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	X	X	X	2

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Ji-sun	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	X	8
Anna Hasselborg	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	4
Chelsea Carey	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jiang Yilun	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	6
Kerry Barr	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	1	9

Draw 3

Friday, September 20, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jiang Yilun	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	5
Anna Hasselborg	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Lene Nielsen	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	X	6
Jennifer Jones	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerry Barr	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	5
Kim Ji-sun	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	3	2	X	11

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wang Bingyu	2	2	0	0	4	0	X	X	X	X	8
Chelsea Carey	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Draw 4

Saturday, September 21, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kerry Barr	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	5
Jennifer Jones	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jiang Yilun	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	8
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wang Bingyu	2	0	0	1	2	2	1	X	X	X	8
Anna Hasselborg	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Lene Nielsen	2	0	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	3	11
Kim Ji-sun	0	4	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	9

Draw 5

Saturday, September 21, 6:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Ji-sun	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	2
Wang Bingyu	2	0	4	0	2	1	2	X	X	X	11

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Anna Hasselborg	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	8
Kerry Barr	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	3	9
Lene Nielsen	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	1	0	4	0	5	0	0	2	X	X	12
Jiang Yilun	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	X	X	5

Draw 6

Sunday, September 22, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	3	10
Kerry Barr	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	0	0	0	1	1	0	X	X	X	X	2
Wang Bingyu	0	3	3	0	0	3	X	X	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Ji-sun	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	4
Jiang Yilun	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Anna Hasselborg	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	6
Lene Nielsen	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	7

Draw 7

Monday, September 23, 9:30 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Lene Nielsen	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	6
Jiang Yilun	0	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	X	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chelsea Carey	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	3
Kim Ji-sun	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	4	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Anna Hasselborg	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	X	4
Jennifer Jones	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Kerry Barr	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	6
Wang Bingyu	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	7

Tiebreaker

Monday, September 23, 6:30 pm

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Jiang Yilun	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	6
Kim Ji-sun	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	9

Playoffs

Source:^[8]

	Semifinals					Final
	1	Wang Bingyu	7
	4	Kim Ji-sun	8
						4	Kim Ji-sun	9
						3	Chelsea Carey	6
	2	Jennifer Jones	4
	3	Chelsea Carey	6

	Bronze medal game
	1	Wang Bingyu	10
	2	Jennifer Jones	6

Semifinals

Tuesday, September 24, 9:30 am

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Wang Bingyu	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	7
Kim Ji-sun	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Jennifer Jones	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	4
Chelsea Carey	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	6

Bronze medal game

Tuesday, September 24, 2:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wang Bingyu	0	3	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	10
Jennifer Jones	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	6

Final

Tuesday, September 24, 2:30 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kim Ji-sun	0	2	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	1	9
Chelsea Carey	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	6