Womens Curling Results: US Misses Clinch After Loss to Great Britain, Dramatic Extra-End Win Decides Fate
Womens Curling Results saw two pivotal sessions of round-robin play produce contrasting outcomes for the United States and Great Britain: the U. S. missed a first opportunity to clinch a semifinal berth after a narrow loss to Great Britain, then pulled off a dramatic extra-end victory that swung the standings and ended a rival's hopes.
Womens Curling Results — USA and Great Britain trade late blows
The U. S. women's team squandered a chance to lock up a semifinal spot when Great Britain executed a steal of two in the 10th end to secure an 8-7 victory. A perfectly played last stone from Great Britain removed a U. S. rock on the button, spun into the house and left the Americans stunned. That loss left the U. S. with a 4-3 record and Great Britain at 3-4, placing the Americans in a must-win position for their remaining round-robin fixture.
The close defeat was framed around a key missed hammer throw by the U. S. skip that ran into a guard, and a tactical sequence the U. S. described as a misread that Great Britain then converted into a match-winning opportunity. Despite outshooting their opponents in the game on overall percentages, the U. S. could not convert in the final end and were forced to regroup.
Semifinal implications and the extra-end thriller
The tension did not ease: in another headline-making game, the United States produced a dramatic 7-6 victory over Switzerland in an extra end. That result had decisive implications across the leaderboard. Even though Great Britain beat Italy 7-4 in their own match, the U. S. extra-end win meant Great Britain were left agonisingly eliminated from semifinal contention.
The combination of results — Great Britain beating Italy 7-4 but still exiting the tournament because of the U. S. win over Switzerland — underlines how tightly contested the round-robin has become. For the U. S., the extra-end success kept their semifinal hopes alive and erased the immediate damage of the earlier loss; for Great Britain, the weekend delivered both a hard-fought victory and the bitter outcome of elimination.
With the final round-robin matches determining which teams will advance, the U. S. outlook is binary: a win in their remaining match would clinch a semifinal spot outright, while a loss would force them to rely on other results. The U. S. will face Switzerland in their final round-robin game, with that match slated to begin at 8: 05 a. m. ET, and the pressure to close out the pool stage now sits squarely on their shoulders.
Those competing for the last play-off places will watch and wait as the final session unfolds: a single extra-end can redraw the knockout map, and the recent run of narrow finishes has ensured the semifinal race will be decided down to the wire.
