Four teams stay undefeated on Sunday at World Mixed Doubles (2024)

21 April 2024

By the end of Sunday’s action at the World Mixed Doubles Championship, both groups had completed the first three of their round-robin games.

Group A has two joint leaders – in the shape of undefeated Estonia and Switzerland –, while in Group B there are also two joint leaders – Canada and Sweden –, all on three wins and no losses.

Group A only played once on Sunday and in this session, Estonia were up against Spain.

In the fifth end of this game, already holding a 4-2 lead, Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee scored two points to increase Estonia’s lead to 6-2. They then went on to win by 10-2 in just six ends.

Afterwards, Kaldvee said, “I think we’re getting better and better and more accurate, so that helps.”

Denmark faced Japan and, in the seventh end with Japan already ahead by 4-3, their female player Ueno Miyu scored four more points with a draw. This gave Japan an 8-3 victory, a second win that puts them into joint third place on the table.

Germany and Switzerland were both unbeaten at the top of the rankings when they met in this session. By the seventh end, Switzerland held a 7-3 lead. In this end, Germany’s Lena Kapp missed her draw attempt to give Switzerland a steal of two points and a 9-3 lead. After this, Germany conceded, while Switzerland joined Estonia at the top of the table.

Türkiye played Norway and, as the teams played the eighth end, Norway led by 6-4. In that end, with a collection of stones tightly gathered around the button, Türkiye’s Dilsat Yildiz threw away her last stone, convinced that she would score two points to tie the game. But, when an umpire’s measure indicated that a Türkiye stone and a Norway stone were dead level, Türkiye could only take one, giving Norway a 6-5 win, their first victory so far.

After this win, Norway’s Kirstin Skaslien said, “A win, so that’s good. It was much needed. We’re not where we want to be, but we’re getting better and better, so we’re hanging in there.”

The fifth game of this session saw Italy play France. The Italians eventually won by 10-6, with Stefania Constantini only having two seconds on her timeclock when she played her last stone.

About that, she said, “I knew how much time I had left; I’m used to it. I always think too much. I always just need to know how much time I have…two seconds? … ok.”

In Group B, Canada followed up their morning 8-3 win over Czechia with an 11-0 six-end whitewash of Netherlands.

After the win over Czechia, Canada’s Kadriana Lott said, “We started strong early on our draw weight, which is key in this game, and kept applying the pressure.”

Earlier, Netherlands had beaten New Zealand by 6-2 and after this game, Netherlands’ Wouter Goesgens said, “It’s always good to get a ‘W’ early in the event, and we’re just playing it game by game now.”

Meanwhile, Sweden had two solid wins, beating China by 9-3 and following that up with an 8-5 win over Korea.

United States had a good day, beating Australia by 8-7 in their morning game, thanks largely to a cross-house double take-out by Becca Hamilton in the sixth end which gave her team four points. They then went on to beat China by 8-6.

Australia then lost to Scotland by 7-5 when the Scots scored two in the extra end, thanks to a double take-out by Sophie Jackson with the final stone of the game.

After their morning loss to Canada, Czechia beat New Zealand by 8-6 in the evening to record their first win and leave the New Zealanders as the only team without a win in their group.

Click here for the standings after day two.

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