Canada’s group has embraced the grind of an unforgiving schedule on the world girls’s curling championship. The wins carry on coming regardless of when the Ottawa-based foursome is taking part in.
Rachel Homan skipped the host aspect to a 7-2 victory over Japan’s Miyu Ueno within the morning and a 9-5 win over Turkey’s Dilsat Yildiz at night time Wednesday to stay unbeaten at 8-0 and safe a playoff spot.
The morning victory got here after a win over Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni the earlier night time.
That outcome, which got here after an extra-end win over Italy’s Stefania Constantini earlier Tuesday, ended a 42-game win streak on the world championship for four-time defending champion Tirinzoni.
“It was a giant day, most likely an excessive amount of caffeine,” Homan mentioned. “It was a ton of enjoyable.”
Returning to Centre 200 to face a younger Japanese aspect skipped by the 2022 world junior champion, Canada’s Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes took a number of ends to regulate to straighter ice on their sheet.
A defensive battle ensued with Canada breaking issues open with three factors within the eighth finish. Miskew helped set it up by leaving two stones underneath partial cowl to strain the Japanese aspect.
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Ueno tried a cross-house double, however left her stone uncovered. Homan made the hit and the groups shook arms after the Canadians stole a degree within the ninth finish.
“We felt like we have been simply right here final night time after which proper again at it this morning,” Miskew mentioned. “Generally these video games are robust to rise up for, however we stayed affected person and made certain that we scored in the fitting ends.”
Yildiz’s aspect proved to be a tricky out within the night. Turkey led 4-3 after a three-point seventh finish and a measure confirmed a single within the ninth.
That left Homan down one with hammer coming residence. The skip made back-to-back tough soft-weight raises to attain 5 factors, extending her group’s general win streak to 24 video games.
“She by no means faltered and simply took it in stride,” mentioned Wilkes.
Constantini was alone in second at 7-1. She edged South Korea’s Eunji Gim 10-9 after beating Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont 8-6 within the afternoon.
Switzerland was 6-2 after dropping a 6-5 choice to Scotland’s Rebecca Morrison. South Korea was additionally 6-2 after a 7-5 win over Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg within the night.
Denmark (6-3) rebounded with a 7-1 win over New Zealand’s Jessica Smith whereas sixth-place Sweden fell to 5-4. The highest six groups within the 13-team discipline on the finish of round-robin play Friday advance to the playoffs.
Tabitha Peterson of america topped Scotland 8-6 to maneuver right into a three-way tie for seventh at 3-5 with Japan and Norway’s Marianne Roervik. Scotland was 3-6 forward of Turkey (2-7), New Zealand and Estonia’s Liisa Turmann (1-7).
Homan meets Estonia within the morning and New Zealand at night time Thursday.
Wednesday was the second of three straight days during which Homan’s aspect performs within the morning and night time attracts. An extended-awaited sleep-in comes Friday, however might be adopted by back-to-back video games that afternoon and night.
Playoff groups that don’t crack the highest two and earn semifinal byes may face one other two-game day Saturday forward of Sunday’s medal video games. A taxing 15 video games over 9 days is a chance.
“It’s not the best. It’s a little bit fatiguing,” Miskew mentioned. “It’s additionally fatiguing to play back-to-back video games. When there’s 13 groups at an occasion of this size, there’s going to be both back-to-back or night-morning. We simply occur to have night-morning 3 times, which is greater than we’re used to.
“So we’re simply attempting to ensure we maximize our relaxation through the day between video games and get well as a lot as we will.”
The competitors began lower than three weeks after Homan ran the desk in Calgary to win the Scotties Match of Hearts, an 18-team occasion that’s someday longer, however has an eight-game round-robin with its two-pool format.
“They normally stability it out in order that should you play at night time, you don’t play the following morning,” Miskew mentioned of the nationals. “There’s not a whole lot of back-to-backs. However right here it’s simply a mixture of all the pieces.
“It’s simply one thing that we’re not sometimes used to. However we’re thrown into it and getting used to it as we go.”
Every group performs a 12-game round-robin schedule in Sydney.
“I attempt not to consider the size of the week an excessive amount of, the variety of video games, as a result of then it will possibly really feel overwhelming,” Wilkes mentioned. “So (we’re) simply specializing in what’s vital proper now and what we will do to prepare for our subsequent sport.”
Canada’s final girls’s world title got here in 2018 when Jennifer Jones was victorious in North Bay, Ont. Homan received gold in her final world championship look in 2017 at Beijing.
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