Canada's Einarson downs Denmark for 3rd win at women's curling worlds

Kerri Einarson got run support from her lineup in an 8-4 doubling of Denmark's Madeleine Dupont at the women's world curling championship Monday.

Canada improved to 3-2 and takes on Japan (4-0) in its lone game Tuesday at the CN Centre.

Einarson's third Val Sweeting posted her best game of the championship so far, shooting 94 per cent and swinging momentum to Canada with takeout shots in the sixth and seventh ends.

Sweeting was 100 per cent on her draws as was second Shannon Birchard in hits for 97 per cent accuracy overall.

That put pressure on the Danes and took pressure off Einarson, who struggled in the first half of the game, but made her open hit to score three points in the sixth end.

"It makes my job a lot a lot easier instead of throwing runs and doubles all the time, but yeah, just making sure I'm making those shots that we have for multiple points," the skip said.

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South Korea, Switzerland and Japan topped the standings at 4-0 with the Swiss and Japanese playing in Monday night's draw.

Sweden was 3-1 ahead of Canada at 3-2. Denmark, Norway and the United States were tied at 2-2 followed by Germany and Italy at 1-3, the Czech Republic at 1-4 and winless Turkey.

After losing two games, Scotland withdrew Sunday because four players tested positive for COVID-19. The Scots forfeit the rest of their games which will give Canada another win Wednesday.

The top six teams at the conclusion of the round robin Friday advance to playoffs. The top two seeds earn byes to Saturday's semifinals, with third through sixth playing off that day to join them.

Danish skip Dupont and her sister, Denise, throwing second stones are playing in their 12th career world championship.

Their best result was a silver medal in 2007 as members of the Angelina Jensen team that lost to Canada's Kelly Scott in the final. Madeleine threw fourth stones for Jensen then.

The Danes, who are coached by Canadian Heather Rogers, are coming off a 2-7 performance in Beijing's Olympic Games last month.