Homan soars to 5-1 at women's curling worlds, beating U.S. and Turkey

A two-win day for Rachel Homan has her Canadian team in a second-place tie at the midway point of round-robin play at the world women's curling championship in South Korea.

The Ottawa-based rink of Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes posted an 8-4 victory over American Tabitha Peterson before picking up an 8-3 win over Turkey's Dilsat Yildiz.

Canada has a 5-1 record after 11 draws at Uijeongbu Arena.

"We got our job done [with converting deuces], especially later in the game when we want to make sure we score. Getting two in those ends feels really good for the momentum," Wilkes said after defeating the Americans.

Canada, shooting an event-high 93 per cent as a unit, had a draw, runback or roll ready to answer any offence the Americans tried to develop.

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Canada's Rachel Homan claimed another win at the world women's curling championship Tuesday by defeating Dilsat Yildiz of Turkey 8-3 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

"It felt like we put together everything we learned from all the previous games and came out there confident knowing what the sheet was going to do, what the rocks were doing," Wilkes said.

Homan curled 92 per cent against the U.S., Miskew was at 94, and Fleury and Wilkes both finished at 93 per cent.

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It was a 9-3 victory for Canada as Rachel Homan defeated Denmark's Medeleine Dupont on Monday at the world women's curling championship in Uijeongbu, South Korea.

Peterson's team, which slipped to 2-3 in the standings, curled 81 per cent. Canada led in draw percentage (92-84) and takeouts (94-77).

Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni beat Italy's Stefania Constantini 8-5 to improve to 7-0. The unbeaten Swiss skip beat South Korea's Eunji Gim 9-6 earlier in the day.

South Korea (5-1) will play the defending champion Canadians on Wednesday.

Denmark's Madeleine Dupont and Sweden's Anna Hasselborg are next at 4-2. The competition continues through Sunday.

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