Lawes eliminates top-seed Gim in HearingLife Tour Challenge women’s quarterfinals
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — Canada’s Team Kaitlyn Lawes upended No. 1 seed Team Eun-Ji Gim of South Korea 7-4 Saturday in the HearingLife Tour Challenge women’s quarterfinals.
After starting the Grand Slam of Curling tournament at 0-2, the Winnipeg native Lawes won her third consecutive game while handing Gim her first and only loss of the week.
Gim, who topped the round-robin table with a 4-0 record and the best shootout total, wasn’t the only previously undefeated club to fall in the women’s quarterfinals.
No. 2 seed Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni also dropped a 7-4 decision to Canada’s Team Jennifer Jones.
Sweden’s Team Anna Hasselborg is the only one of the three clubs that carried an unblemished round-robin record into the quarterfinals that is still standing.
Hasselborg ousted Scotland’s Team Rebecca Morrison 8-5 and will play Jones, from Winnipeg, in the semifinals.
Lawes will take on fellow Canadian club Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Man. Einarson eliminated Italy’s Team Stefania Constantini 7-4.
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TIER 2 WOMEN’S QUARTERFINALS RESULTS
• Team Jolene Campbell 7, Team Ikue Kitazawa 6
• Team Madeleine Dupont 6, Team Christina Black 5
• Team Danielle Inglis 7, Team Sayaka Yoshimura 6
• Team Eun-Jung Kim 5, Team Sarah Anderson 2
UP NEXT
The men’s quarterfinals featuring Italy’s Team Joël Retornaz vs. Sweden’s Team Niklas Edin; Team Brad Gushue vs. Team Reid Carruthers in an all-Canadian clash; Switzerland’s Team Yannick Schwaller vs. Canada’s Team Brendan Bottcher; and Scotland’s Team Ross Whyte vs. Canada’s Team Matt Dunstone.
Watch live at 3:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 p.m. PT on Sportsnet.
The men’s and women’s semifinals go down at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT on Sportsnet 360.
Stream the playoffs online via Sportsnet+ (Canada) or Yare (international).
NOTES
The HearingLife Tour Challenge is the first Grand Slam of Curling event of the season with 32 men’s teams and 32 women’s teams in two tiers of action. … Tier 1 features the top teams from around the world. Tier 2 features the next group of teams in the rankings with the winners earning promotions into the Co-op Canadian Open later this season. … The finals are set for Sunday.
