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This article was published 26/03/2011 (5498 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Amber HOLLAND is moving on at the Capital One world women’s curling championship.
The Team Canada skip withstood a late rally by Switzerland’s Mirjam Ott and won 8-6 in Friday’s tiebreaker in Esbjerg, Denmark.
Holland, whose foursome includes sisters Kim and Tammy Schneider, and Heather Kalenchuk, will next face Denmark’s Lene Nielsen in Saturday’s 3 vs. 4 Page Playoff game. The winner will play China’s Bingyu Wang in the semifinal later Saturday.
“That’s No. 1 target achieved,” Holland said. “Obviously we had to win that to get to where we needed to in the playoffs, so (we) just got to keep playing.”
Sweden’s Anette Norberg beat Wang 7-6 in the Page 1-2 game and advanced to Sunday’s final.
Ott, who has lost six straight to Canadian opponents at the international level, rebounded from a 7-3 seventh-end deficit with an open draw for three in the eighth to cut the lead to one.
“I just over-swept my first shot,” said Holland. “You don’t like giving up a three, but we were up four, so if there is any time to do it, that’s the time, and one up playing the ninth end with hammer is still pretty comfortable.”
Holland blanked the ninth end and drew the pin with her final shot in the 10th to ice the win.
Holland is bidding to win Canada’s first world women’s title since 2008, when Jennifer Jones captured the championship. The Kronau Curling Club team is also attempting to win Saskatchewan’s first world women’s championship since Regina’s Sandra Schmirler won the title in 1997.
Holland led 2-0 after the second end and padded her lead to 3-0 with a steal in the third.
Ott scored two in the fourth and Holland countered with a deuce of her own in the fifth end for a 5-2 lead at the break.
— Postmedia News
