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.
TIER 2 WOMEN’S QUARTERFINALS RESULTS
• Team Ikue Kitazawa 8, Team Jolene Campbell 5
• 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 and Sportsnet+.
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 semifinals are also scheduled for Saturday evening with the finals set for Sunday.
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