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Cup of China Results, Day 1 (part 1)

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Here are the first results out of Cup of China's first day.

China's Shen and Zhao lead in pairs. China's Zhang and Zhang shockingly find themselves down in fourth place. I haven't watched yet but this should be interesting.

Pl. Name Nation TSS= TES+ PCS+ SS TR PE CH IN Ded. StN.
1 Xue SHEN
Hongbo ZHAO
CHN 72.28 40.76 31.52 7.70 7.65 8.00 8.00 8.05 0.00 1
2 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR
Stanislav MOROZOV
UKR 62.98 37.22 25.76 6.70 6.35 6.40 6.55 6.20 0.00 7
3 Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA
Nodari MAISURADZE
RUS 62.54 37.42 25.12 6.45 6.05 6.25 6.40 6.25 0.00 6
4 Dan ZHANG
Hao ZHANG
CHN 61.92 33.56 28.36 7.35 6.95 7.00 7.15 7.00 0.00 8
5 Meagan DUHAMEL
Craig BUNTIN
CAN 55.08 31.48 24.60 6.35 5.95 6.05 6.25 6.15 1.00 5
6 Huibo DONG
Yiming WU
CHN 50.32 30.24 20.08 5.45 4.70 5.00 5.10 4.85 0.00 4
7 Amanda EVORA
Mark LADWIG
USA 48.02 27.66 21.36 5.60 5.20 5.20 5.45 5.25 1.00 3
8 Vanessa JAMES
Yannick BONHEUR
FRA 47.28 25.48 21.80 5.65 5.35 5.30 5.60 5.35 0.00 2

Belbin and Agosto are dominating the ice dancing as predicted. Here are the standings after the compulsories:

Pl. Name Nat. TSS= TES+ PCS+ SS TI PF IN Ded. StN.
1 Tanith BELBIN
Benjamin AGOSTO
USA 38.33 19.16 19.17 7.70 7.45 7.80 7.80 0.00 9
2 Jana KHOKHLOVA
Sergei NOVITSKI
RUS 36.30 18.04 18.26 7.40 7.10 7.40 7.35 0.00 8
3 Federica FAIELLA
Massimo SCALI
ITA 35.37 17.96 17.41 7.00 6.70 7.05 7.20 0.00 7
4 Alexandra ZARETSKI
Roman ZARETSKI
ISR 30.88 15.28 15.60 6.40 6.00 6.30 6.30 0.00 5
5 Kaitlyn WEAVER
Andrew POJE
CAN 30.40 15.58 14.82 5.95 5.70 6.05 6.10 0.00 4
6 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK
Sergei VERBILLO
UKR 29.43 15.22 14.21 5.75 5.45 5.75 5.85 0.00 3
7 Madison CHOCK
Greg ZUERLEIN
USA 28.76 14.68 14.08 5.70 5.40 5.60 5.90 0.00 6
8 Xintong HUANG
Xun ZHENG
CHN 27.87 14.54 13.33 5.50 5.05 5.35 5.45 0.00 2
9 Xiaoyang YU
Chen WANG
CHN 24.73 13.08 11.65 5.00 4.25 4.65 4.75 0.00 1

I saw the men; I agree with the placements, although I will need to take a look at the judge's scores because I don't see how Japan's Nobunari Oda received higher technical scores than Russia's Sergei Voronov, who appeared to complete a quad and some other beautiful jumps. But I think Oda outskated Voronov on a whole. America's Evan Lysacek was very good as well but he lacked a bit of speed in his program (which I liked, and obviously the judges disagreed about the speed cause he got the highest program components scores of the three), and his jumps weren't as good as the two ahead of him. That's a great program components score for Lysacek though.

Pl. Name Nat. TSS= TES+ PCS+ SS TR PE CH IN Ded. StN.
1 Nobunari ODA JPN 83.35 46.70 36.65 7.55 6.85 7.55 7.35 7.35 0.00 9
2 Sergei VORONOV RUS 81.40 46.30 35.10 7.05 6.75 7.20 7.00 7.10 0.00 10
3 Evan LYSACEK USA 80.80 43.30 37.50 7.40 6.85 7.75 7.55 7.95 0.00 12
4 Samuel CONTESTI ITA 72.08 39.68 32.40 6.45 6.15 6.65 6.50 6.65 0.00 6
5 Jinlin GUAN CHN 66.70 38.40 28.30 5.80 5.45 5.65 5.75 5.65 0.00 2
6 Yannick PONSERO FRA 66.65 33.10 34.55 7.20 6.75 6.70 6.95 6.95 1.00 11
7 Stephen CARRIERE USA 65.24 33.94 31.30 6.45 6.00 6.25 6.25 6.35 0.00 8
8 Chao YANG CHN 65.10 37.90 27.20 5.65 5.25 5.35 5.55 5.40 0.00 3
9 Denis TEN KAZ 64.05 32.10 31.95 6.60 6.20 6.35 6.40 6.40 0.00 7
10 Ming XU CHN 61.02 35.62 25.40 5.40 4.90 5.05 5.10 4.95 0.00 1
11 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 60.12 33.32 27.80 5.45 5.35 5.50 5.65 5.85 1.00 5
12 Armin MAHBANOOZADEH USA 59.54 32.94 26.60 5.45 5.20 5.20 5.40 5.35 0.00 4

Also, I am officially reporting the ladies results under protest. The judges have quite the sense of humor putting Kiira Korpi in second place with one of the UGLIEST combinations I have seen today. I would definitely have (at least) Italy's Carolina Kostner (who had a nice skate) and Japan's Akiko Suzuki ahead of her. It was a successful day and a great skate for America's Mirai Nagasu. Rachael Flatt was not looking as good as I expected her to, and I didn't love her performance as much as I expected to. And Canada's Joannie Rochette had a disastrous short program. She popped a triple and bailed on her combination as well.

Pl. Name Nat. TSS= TES+ PCS+ SS TR PE CH IN Ded. StN.
1 Mirai NAGASU USA 62.20 37.40 24.80 6.35 5.80 6.35 6.25 6.25 0.00 6
2 Kiira KORPI FIN 61.20 34.80 26.40 6.65 6.35 6.75 6.60 6.65 0.00 9
3 Carolina KOSTNER ITA 61.12 31.80 29.32 7.35 7.10 7.50 7.30 7.40 0.00 12
4 Akiko SUZUKI JPN 59.52 34.40 25.12 6.55 5.90 6.35 6.30 6.30 0.00 7
5 Rachael FLATT USA 58.80 33.40 25.40 6.50 6.05 6.40 6.40 6.40 0.00 10
6 Fumie SUGURI JPN 55.46 30.38 25.08 6.45 6.05 6.30 6.35 6.20 0.00 8
7 Joannie ROCHETTE CAN 52.12 23.92 28.20 7.00 7.05 6.85 7.25 7.10 0.00 11
8 Yan LIU CHN 51.28 30.00 21.28 5.40 5.00 5.50 5.40 5.30 0.00 3
9 Beatrisa LIANG USA 50.76 29.04 22.72 5.80 5.35 5.65 5.75 5.85 1.00 5
10 Bingwa GENG CHN 47.64 28.20 19.44 5.05 4.55 5.00 4.90 4.80 0.00 1
11 Diane SZMIETT CAN 44.24 25.08 21.16 5.55 5.05 5.20 5.35 5.30 2.00 4
12 Binshu XU CHN 37.08 19.36 18.72 4.95 4.40 4.70 4.70 4.65 1.00 2