On Saturday 26 April 2025, the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025 and the World Senior Curling Championships 2025 got underway at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Mixed Doubles
Group A
The ten teams of Group A played twice in Saturday’s opening day of competition of the World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2025 and, at the end of the day, Canada, Italy, Scotland and Sweden all shared the lead on two wins and no losses.
Hosts Canada beat Germany by 10-5 in the morning session and followed that up with a 6-4 win over Denmark in their evening game.
By the seventh end of their game against Germany, Canada held a 6-5 lead. With the last stone of that end, Canada’s Jocelyn Peterman drew into position to score four points and improve her team’s lead to 10-5. Germany then conceded to give the hosts an opening win.
Afterwards, the Canadians were pleased with their win. Brett Gallant said, “I thought we played really well and Jocelyn made a couple of great shots with her last ones.” Meanwhile Jocelyn added, “It was great to have a start like that, now we need to build.”
Italy are the current Olympic champions and dominated in both their games, beating Finland by 10-3 in seven ends and following that up with a six-end 10-3 win over Germany in the evening.
After the evening game, Stefania Constantini said, “We’ve been practising a lot of course — we have an important event in less than a year now. When we arrived here, we just said ‘let’s go game by game’.”
Amos Mosaner added, “This ice was great, so I’m trying to do my best and hopefully, it will work out. That’s our goal right now, and we’ll see what happens.”
Scotland’s two wins came against Netherlands — by 10-3, and then against China — by 8-5 in the evening game.
After their opening win, Scotland’s Jennifer Dodds said, “That was a great start. Even though we lost the first two ends, I thought that went really well. Everything came together in the third end when we got a big three — that was a big boost for our momentum.”
Later, in the seventh end of their game against China, Dodds threw her final stone of the seventh end to nose-hit a stone and score two points, for a final score of 8-5.
Sweden’s two wins came against Denmark by 5-4 in their morning game, and then by 9-4 over Netherlands in the evening.
Behind the leaders, China and Finland have each won one game and lost one game. China’s win came in the morning against Korea, by 7-4, while Finland also beat Korea in the evening session, by 8-6.
Group B
There was only one session on opening day for the teams in Group B.
In this session, Estonia — last year’s silver medallists — played New Zealand and, by the seventh end, the Estonians held a narrow 5-4 lead. Harri Lill then played a draw with his last stone to score three more points and give Estonia an 8-4 win.
Afterwards Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee said, “In every opening game there’s a little bit of chasing each other, so you just have to get comfortable with the ice and wait for your chance.”
Switzerland faced Australia, and, in the seventh end, the Australians led by 6-3 when Switzerland’s Alina Paetz attempted a double take-out for three points to level the game. But her angle was misjudged, taking out only one and giving up a steal of one point instead. The Swiss then conceded, and Australia secured the 7-3 win.
Following the game, Australia’s Tahli Gill said, “They’re a good team and they play really well, too. We knew we had to play better and take our chances.”
United States were up against Türkiye in this session and by the fifth end, the Americans held a 5-3 lead. Türkiye’s Dilsat Yildiz then attempted a double take-out to limit the damage in this end. However, this was unsuccessful and gave the Americans a steal of five points instead, increasing their lead to 10-3. Türkiye then conceded after six ends, giving the United States an 11-3 opening win.
After this win Cory Thiesse said, “We were just getting used to the ice in that game. It was a bit of a slow start but we got there. We’re just making sure that we do all the right things process-wise and concentrating on one rock at a time in every game.”
By the fourth end of their game against Spain, Japan had built a 5-0 lead. Spain’s Oihane Otaegi then opened her team’s scoring with a draw and nudge for one point to reduce Japan’s lead to 5-1. Despite this, Japan went on to win by 9-1.
Czechia faced Norway in this session. By the eighth end, Norway held a 9-7 lead when Czechia’s Julie Zelingrova attempted a gentle hit-and-roll. The stone landed closest to the centre but the Czechs could only score one point, handing Norway a 9-8 win.
Find the mixed doubles standings after day one here.
Find the mixed doubles results and playing schedule here.
Seniors
The World Senior Curling Championships 2025 also got underway with play in the men’s section on Saturday.
Among the winners from the first two sessions were Germany, who had an opening 5-3 win over Scotland; Portugal, who beat Ireland by 6-5; England, with a 12-5 win over local rivals Wales; Czechia, who beat Slovenia by 16-1; and Israel, 11-1 victors over Estonia.
Poland beat Switzerland by 6-5 while Australia were 7-3 winners over the Philippines.
Find all of the seniors results from day one and the schedule here.
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