{"id":58960,"date":"2026-05-02T01:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:50:56","slug":"canada-advances-into-mixed-doubles-curling-semi-finals-after-downing-czechia-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58960\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada advances into mixed doubles curling semi-finals after downing Czechia, Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Sahaidak\/Lott skip Kadriana Sahaidak, right, and third Colton Lott discuss strategy as they play Team Schmiemann\/Morris at the 2021 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Calgary, Alta.Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada earned a direct spot into the world mixed doubles curling championship semi-finals after finishing the preliminary round with a pair of wins on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Kadriana and Colton Lott followed a nervy 6-5 extra-end win over Czechia in the day\u2019s early draw to a more comfortable 10-5 win over Switzerland in the evening.<\/p>\n

The wins ensured the husband-and-wife duo from Gimli, Man., would finish atop the Group B standings at 8-1. The top teams from each group advance directly to Friday\u2019s semi-finals, while the second- and third-place teams meet in a qualifying round.<\/p>\n

\u201cCouldn\u2019t be more proud. I think it makes it better that we\u2019re teammates, we\u2019re a couple, we\u2019re partners,\u201d Kadriana Lott said of teaming up with her husband. \u201cIt\u2019s great to do what we do and to travel and play on this surface together. It\u2019s a huge feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s path to the semi-finals was complicated by the game against the Czech duo of Petra Klimova and Lukas Klima, who led 4-2 after a steal of one in the sixth end.<\/p>\n

Canada responded with three in the seventh, but the Czechs sent it to an extra end with a point in the eighth before Canada scored the decisive point with the hammer in the added end.<\/p>\n

There was no such drama against Switzerland\u2019s Stefanie Berset and Philipp Hoesli, with Canada opening with three points and following with a steal of two.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gave us all the comfort going into the next few ends. It gave us that full control, and we could play with the strategy,\u201d Colton Lott said of the strong start. \u201cEven if we gave up two, it\u2019s not a detriment to what we\u2019re trying to do out there. We just kept putting shots together and keeping that pedal down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Canadians didn\u2019t let up, taking a 9-5 lead with two points in the sixth and sealing the victory with a steal in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Canada ended up not needing the victory over the Swiss after defending champion Italy closed with a 10-8 extra-end win over Scotland.<\/p>\n

Italy finished second in Group B at 7-2 followed by Scotland at 6-3. Canada held the head-to-head tiebreaker over Italy, but not over Scotland.<\/p>\n

In Pool A, Australia finished top of the table and moved into the semi-finals with an 8-1 record. Sweden and Japan, both 7-2, got the remaining playoff spots.<\/p>\n

Sweden will face Scotland, and Italy will take on Japan in the qualification games Friday, with the winners advancing to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Team Sahaidak\/Lott skip Kadriana Sahaidak, right, and third Colton Lott discuss strategy as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1064,1051,1065,1042,1040,1066,563,1039,1057,1058,1054,1041,1038,39,1062,457,1056,1049,1077,1043,1044,70,1052,1053,899,1067,1047,1072,1073,1075,1070,1074,1068,1071,1045,1060,1061,69,1059,1069,1050,17,789,1063,1055,1048,1046,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-58960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-switzerland","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}