Jones wins two more games
Canadian squad remains unbeaten at women’s worlds
Canada’s Jennifer Jones was given a rather favourable schedule at the start of the world women’s curling championship and she’s taken full advantage.
The Winnipeg skip picked up two more wins Tuesday at the North Bay Memorial Gardens. She beat Denmark’s Angelina Jensen 10-5 in the morning before topping Scotland’s Hannah Fleming 8-6 in the evening.
Jones has opened the competition with six straight victories.
Canada’s first three wins over the weekend went smoothly and China provided a mild test Monday.
On Tuesday, Jensen’s team was game against the host side in the early going before fading in the eighth end, giving up four points for the loss.
“We started a little bit slow so we’ll try to fix that in the next game,’’ Jones said. ``But we’re ending really strong, which if you’re going to pick a way to do it, that’s the way to go.’’
The Canada skip put up three
points over the first two ends against Scotland, but Fleming scored a deuce in the third and nailed a delicate double tap back
for three in the fifth to take the lead.
Scotland stole a single in the sixth when Jones was wide with a raise attempt. But Jones rebounded with a double takeout in the seventh to score three for a lead she wouldn’t relinquish.
The schedule will get a lot tougher for Canada starting Wednesday.
First up is an afternoon game against Olympic silver medallist EunJung Kim of South Korea. It will be followed by a showcase matchup against Pyeongchang champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden.
Hasselborg, meanwhile, defeated Anna Kubeskova of the Czech Republic 8-6 in the afternoon and edged Switzerland’s Binia Feltscher 5-4 in the late game to improve to 7-0.
South Korea moved to 5-1 with a 12-3 rout of China’s Yilun Jiang in the minimum six ends.
Round-robin play continues through Friday night.
The top six teams in the 13team field will make the playoffs and the medal games are set for Sunday.
Jones, the 2014 Olympic champion, won her lone world title in 2008. This is her sixth appearance at the world women’s championship.