Much of my focus this afternoon was obviously on the England v Ireland clash which pitched members of the same club in Scotland against each other. And it turned into quite a battle, though many of the scores came from mistakes rather than positive shots. England raced into a 3-0 lead after 2 ends but a 4 for Ireland followed by a steal of 1 put them in the driving seat. England came back with a 2 to level things after 5 before a 3 for the Irish opened up a gap which England could not overcome - final score was 8-6 to Ireland.
The USA finally won their first game,beating Slovakia, while Finland and Switzerland continued their unbeaten runs - they plus Ireland lead this section on 3 wins, 2 clear of England, USA and Latvia with Slovakia and Russia winless.
In women's play New Zealand opened their account with a win over Czech Republic while Japan won a hard fought tussle against Italy and Sweden did enough to beat Slovakia.
Tonight's final session featured one of the most anticipated matches of the week, as usual, when Scotland faced Canada. After exchanging ones in the first two ends the game was more or less settled by a 4 for the Candians in the third end with the final score being 9-4. Also in that section the New Zealanders continued to win, this time against Hungary, while Japan beat Netherlands. Canada and New Zealand are undefeated on 3 wins each in this section followed by Italy and Japan on one loss and Scotland, Netherlands and Hungary still looking for their first win.
In women's play Denmark thumped Finland 15-1 in 6 ends while Canada turned a 10-0 lead after 3 ends into an 11-2 win over Ireland, also after 6 ends.
Tomorrow I do not have a game to watch until 1930 and intend to go and do a tour of Copenhagen so news from the early part of the day about the curling will be scarce until my evening round up.
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