Canada’s Team Rachel Homan looking confident following win against Denmark at LGT World Women’s

UIJEONGBU, SOUTH KOREA — Canada’s Team Rachel Homan has made strides through a weekend of learning, adapting and refining its game at the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship.

While the Canadians are still discovering new tendencies, they looked comfortable throughout the 9-3 victory in eight ends against Denmark’s Team Madeleine Dupont (2-2) on Monday.

With the win, skip Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachelle Brown, and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renée Sonnenberg improve to 3-1 at Uijeongbu Arena.

“[The ice] was different that game again; it was quite a bit straighter than we’ve seen so far, so we had to adjust to that because it was faster and straighter,” said second Miskew. “But that’s kind of the surface that we had at the Scotties, so it was easy to adapt. Every sheet’s just a little bit different, so we’re trying to figure it out one game at a time and staying patient.”

Team Homan produced a highlight reel of content to score points and limit the Danes. The Canadian skip’s first shot of the game was a spot-on freeze. Dupont attempted to follow it in but chapped off, leaving Canada with an opening deuce.

While Homan had a rare flash in the second end, it did not dictate the game. Denmark missed its opportunity, drawing heavy on a chance for three and settled for two.

Homan was again in fine form in the fourth end, playing a combination runback, driving forward three Canadian stones to evict the two Danish counters on the button. That shot led to Canada stealing one.

Denmark looked like it could score multiple points in the fifth. Team Homan debated playing a runback to likely give up two or play aggressively with a draw to the four-foot to sit one, but risk giving up three. Canada opted for the latter, and Homan made it to perfection. The Canadian skip’s draw accuracy was 91 per cent at the end of the game.

“We overstepped a couple of Tracy’s (throws) because it was faster than we were expecting, so we really knew the speeds. We were able to relay that information to [Rachel] confidently, which in other games is something that we didn’t always have a grasp on,” Miskew said. 

The second half of the game was all Canada, scoring a deuce in six, a single steal in seven and a steal of two in eight.

Miskew believes the team isn’t quite firing on all cylinders yet, but she remains optimistic the team is trending in the right direction as it aims to defend its world title. 

“We know we’re not robots; we’re going to make mistakes. It’s just a matter of learning from those mistakes, not getting upset with them, and taking it one shot at a time because they’re long games out there,” Miskew said.

In other Draw 7 games, Switzerland’s Team Silvana Tirinzoni (4-0) defeated Japan’s Team Sayaka Yoshimura (2-3) by a score of 9-5; South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim (4-0) needed an extra end to pick up a 9-6 win over China’s Team Rui Wang (2-2); and Team Tabitha Peterson of the United States (2-2) served a loss to Sweden’s Team Anna Hasselborg (3-2) with a 6-5 extra-end victory.

Canada is back on the ice with two games on Tuesday in South Korea. First, it takes on Team Peterson and the United States at 8 p.m. Monday night (all times ET), followed by a 6 a.m. Tuesday morning game against Turkey’s Team Dilsat Yildiz (0-4).

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