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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Winnipeg’s Chelsea Carey will play for another day at the Masters Grand Slam of Curling with a 6-2 win over Anna Sidorova of Russia during Draw 11 action Friday.

Both teams finished their pools with 2-2 records to reach the tiebreaker stage.

Carey, who finished runner-up in last year’s event, took a 2-1 lead with a deuce in the third and continued to roll from there thanks to steals of one in the fourth and a whopping three in the fifth. Sidorova blanked the sixth and was forced to take just a single in the seventh.

Elsewhere, Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton (3-1) qualified for the playoffs with a 7-3 win over Sherry Middaugh, from Coldwater, Ont. Middaugh dropped to a 2-2 record but earned a spot in tiebreakers.

Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin (3-1) held the hammer in the extra end and made no mistake sending her last shot to the button and win 4-3 against Bingyu Wang from China (1-3). Nedohin dropped her opening-round match to Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson but has now won three in a row to reach the playoffs.

Defending champion Rachel Homan of Ottawa (2-2) got back into the win column, and into the tiebreakers, with a 9-2 win over Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa (0-4). 

In men’s action, 2010 Olympic silver medallist Thomas Ulsrud’s tournament came to an end with a 7-2 loss to Rui Liu from China. Liu (3-1) scored a deuce in the second, picked up single steals in the third and fourth and padded his lead with a three-ender in the sixth. Ulsrud (1-3) opened the scoring with one in the first but the Norwegian skip managed to grab just another single in the fifth.