Friday's Ningbo quarterfinal pits Jie Cui against Petr Bar Biryukov on hard. Jie Cui is 6-4 across recent matches. Petr Bar Biryukov is 6-4 across recent matches.

The underlying stats are tight across the board — this is a matchup decided by a handful of points. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Cui is exactly that — a lean.