Canada's Homan clinches berth to semis at season-ending Players' Championship

Ottawa's Rachel Homan locked up top spot in the women's standings and a berth in the semifinals at the Grand Slam of Curling Players' Championship with a 6-5 win over Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa in Friday's second draw.

Homan finished the round robin at the season-ending tournament a perfect 5-0, but needed an extra end to beat Fujisawa (1-4).

The Japanese skip entered the match already eliminated from playoff contention, but gave the reigning women's world champion a tough match.

Swiss skip Silvana Tirinzoni had a chance to lock up a top-two finish and earn a semifinal spot but lost 11-9 to South Korea's Gim Eun-ji.

Gim and Tirinzoni finished the round robin at 4-1 and qualified for the playoffs, but Tirinzoni can finish no higher than third because Gim had a superior score in the shootout tiebreaker.

A team's cumulative shootout score comes from pre-game draws to the button to determine which team gets hammer.

The top six teams in each competition qualify for the playoffs.

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In other Draw 13 results, Edmonton's Brendan Bottcher finished the round-robin at 2-3 with a convincing 8-2 win over world men's silver medallist Brad Gushue of St. John's, N.L. (3-2).

Italy's Joel Retornaz edged Scotland's Ross Whyte 8-7. Both teams finished with 3-2 records.

In Friday's earlier draw, Winnipeg's Mike McEwen (4-0) remained the lone unbeaten team in the men's competition with an 8-3 win over Scotland's James Craik (1-3).

Kerri Einarson (1-3) of Gimli, Man., scored two in the final end for a 6-5 win over Winnipeg's Kaitlyn Lawes (0-4) and men's world champion Niklas Edin (2-2) also scored a deuce in the final end in a 6-5 win over Calgary's Kevin Koe (1-3).

Two more draws were scheduled for Friday.