USA 6, China 5
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Team USA skip Tara Peterson was shooting just 69 percent on draw shots leading up to the 10th end of Sunday's round-robin match against China. But the three-time Olympian buried a draw when she needed it most.
On the final throws of the 10th, the American's final throw came down the right side of the house, floating in behind five stones before nestling itself alone on the back of the four-foot.
With the hammer, China attempted a runback down the opposite side of the side. The rock crashing their rock into an American guard with hopes it would have enough momentum to push the pile, but the throw came up light and the U.S. stole one for the game-winning point.
"I mean, I love a good draw to the button," Peterson said after the win. "The fact that even in the 10th end I came up short on my first so I kind of knew the adjustment I needed to make for my second, so it all came together. The girls swept perfectly, Cory (Thiesse) called a perfect line, so it was a good two shots.
The U.S. trailed, 4-1, at the halfway break.
"We just had to stick with it," Peterson said. "We had a good team meeting at the fifth end break of what we needed to do to flip it around for us for the second half, and we got more energy and our draw speed got a little bit better, and we kind of kept the pressure on them to make some tough shots."
In the sixth, China's final throw didn't make it far into the house to get past the U.S. second stone, and Peterson made them pay for the miss. The skip tapped China's back yellow rock out, giving her team two to get within one.
Peterson again dropped one into the button on the final throw of the eighth for another single, and the U.S. tied the score in the ninth. Peterson threw a guard on her team's final rock of the ninth, and Wang Rui's throw hit that guard, leaving the Americans sitting one on the button to even the score at 5-5 going into the 10th.
China just barely outshot the Americans, 84-83 percent, but dominated on takeouts, finishing with 42 while the U.S. had just 16.
The win was the third in a row for Team USA, which improved to 4-1 in the Milan Cortina Games, and has now won three straight games.
"We kind of build off every game," Peterson said. "We played really well against Japan last night and maybe missed a few more in this game today, but if you kind of just keep it close anything can happen."
Team USA will be back on the ice at 1:05 p.m. ET on Monday to face winless Italy.
China (2-2) will return to take on Canada at 3:05 a.m. ET on Monday.
| United States (6) | China (5) | |
| 0 | 1st end | 0 |
| 0 | 2nd end | 2 |
| 1 | 3rd end | 0 |
| 0 | 4th end | 1 |
| 0 | 5th end | 1 |
| 2 | 6th end | 0 |
| 0 | 7th end | 1 |
| 1 | 8th end | 0 |
| 1 | 9th end | 0 |
| 1 | 10th end | 0 |
South Korea 7, Japan 5
South Korea only scored multiple points in one end, but the three in the eighth was enough to put them ahead of Japan for good in Sunday's win.
The Koreans finished with 41 takeouts to just 32 for Japan. They barely outshot the Japanese squad, 82-79 percent.
Both teams will be off for the morning session on Monday and will return for Session 3 at 1:05 p.m. ET. South Korea (3-2) will face China and Japan (1-4) will play Canada.
| Japan (5) | South Korea (7) | |
| 0 | 1st end | 0 |
| 0 | 2nd end | 1 |
| 0 | 3rd end | 1 |
| 2 | 4th end | 0 |
| 0 | 5th end | 1 |
| 1 | 6th end | 0 |
| 0 | 7th end | 0 |
| 0 | 8th end | 3 |
| 2 | 9th end | 0 |
| 0 | 10th end | 1 |
Sweden 10, Great Britain 7
Sweden remained the only unbeaten team in the women's curling tournament with a three-point win on Sunday.
Anna Hasselborg's team scored three points in each of the second and fourth ends, and added a steal of one in the fifth for a 7-3 lead at the halfway break.
Sweden had two stolen points in the match.
Sara McManus finished with 19 takeouts. Hasselborg added 15, and Agnes Knochenhauer had 10.
Sweden (5-0) will next face Switzerland at 3:05 a.m. ET on Monday. Great Britain (1-3) will be on the ice at the same time to face Denmark.
| Great Britain (7) | Sweden (10) | |
| 2 | 1st end | 0 |
| 0 | 2nd end | 3 |
| 1 | 3rd end | 0 |
| 0 | 4th end | 3 |
| 0 | 5th end | 1 |
| 0 | 6th end | 1 |
| 2 | 7th end | 0 |
| 0 | 8th end | 1 |
| 2 | 9th end | 0 |
| 0 | 10th end | 1 |
Denmark 7, Italy 2
It was total domination for Denmark in a victory over Italy.
Denmark scored in four straight ends from the fourth-seventh, coming away with five total points, four of which were stolen, over that stretch.
Skip Madeleine Dupont finished with 13 takeouts in the win. Denmark shot 88 percent on takeout attempts, and 78 percent on all shots, as a team.
Denmark (3-2) will return to face Great Britain at 3:05 a.m. ET on Monday. Italy (0-5) will next face Team USA at 1:05 p.m. ET.
| Denmark(7) | Italy (2) | |
| 0 | 1st end | 0 |
| 2 | 2nd end | 0 |
| 0 | 3rd end | 1 |
| 1 | 4th end | 0 |
| 1 | 5th end | 0 |
| 2 | 6th end | 0 |
| 1 | 7th end | 0 |
| 0 | 8th end | 1 |
| X | 9th end | X |
| X | 10th end | X |