Christensen confident as USA target World Women’s Curling Championship semi-final

Cory Christensen believes momentum is on USA's side as they finished the round-robin stage of the World Women's Curling Championship with a 9-5 win over Denmark in Canada. The United States picked up their eighth win of the tournament to set up a qualification game with fourth-placed Sweden to decide who reaches the final four.

Ad/> And Christensen said: «Our goal was to come out and have a good game to get some momentum going into the play-offs. We feel really good about how we're playing.» CurlingKorea join Switzerland at the top of round robin table23/03/2022 AT 20:33 Yesterday's evening session — the last round-robin session — also saw unbeaten Switzerland defeat Germany 7-6 to go straight through to the semi-finals in top spot with 12 wins.

Meanwhile, Korea defeated Turkey 10-2 to secure their semi-final berth despite Canada also running out 9-6 winners over Czech Republic as they shared second place with Sweden. With all three teams finishing with nine wins and three losses, second place — and the direct route to the other semi-final — was given to Korea due to their superior draw shot challenge record.

Having narrowly missed out on second place and that automatic semi-final berth, Canada will instead face sixth-placed Denmark in the other play-off game. Sportsbeat 2022 Beijing 2022Grainger vows Team GB will improve after Beijing disappointment27/02/2022 AT 13:30 Beijing 2022Muirhead ready for 'craziness' back in the UK following gold medal win21/02/2022 AT 15:15