Switzerland continued their undefeated run with five victories in three days at the Women's World Curling Championships. With seven round-robin sessions in the bag, Silvana Tirinzoni led her team to a stunning 9-1 demolition of Germany in six ends to continue their stance as the only unbeaten team of the competition so far, with a 7-2 victory against Sweden in Turkey in session five. Ad The reigning champions now have 34 wins from 35 World Championship matches but Tirinzoni is unfazed by the impressive feat of their successes and stated that she is only focused on getting the job done.
CurlingSwitzerland off to winning start in Women's Curling World Championships title defence18/03/2023 AT 17:46 «All the credit goes to the front end with Carole [Howald] and Briar [Schwaller-Hürlimann],» she said. «They have adapted so well to Alina [Paetz] and me. It was not easy to step into Melanie [Barbezat] and Esther [Neuenschwander]'s shoes but they've done amazingly.
»The statistics don’t interest me. I know how good or bad I play. «Sometimes it is important to see weaknesses in the other teams, so we study their percentages, but not much of ours.» Norway's 7-3 win over Denmark puts them second in the standings and level with Canada following their 7-2 victory over Italy.
Korea denied New Zealand a historic first World Championship win as they roared back to an extra-end last-stone 8-7 victory in session six. Kiwi skip Bridget Becker was unable to make her last stone count and missed out on the maiden victory as Korea crawled back from their initial 5-0 deficit to take the win. Ha Seung-youn's team then handed Scotland their third defeat on the bounce in session seven, in a score of 6-4.
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