image source, james roberts
Rebecca Morrison's rink is currently ranked 17th in the world
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World Women's Curling Championship |
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venue: Sydney Center 200, Cape Breton, Canada date: March 16th to 24th |
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coverage: Live streaming Scotland games on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website and app – 18 March v Denmark (12:00 GMT), 20 March v Switzerland (17:00), 21 March v Turkey (17:00) ), March 22 vs. Japan (12:00) :00) & v Canada (17:00). The semi-finals will be held on March 23rd and the finals will be held on March 24th. |
Rebecca Morrison believes Scotland are “much more prepared than last year” when they begin the World Women's Curling Championship on Saturday.
The Scots finished 12th out of 13 teams a year ago and currently sit 17th in the world, but face a difficult task.
Four of the top five links in the world are located between Scotland and Medal.
“These championships have great lineups and we've played a lot of teams on the tour this season,” Skip Morrison said.
“We have played more games against the top teams in the world, so we are much more prepared than last year.”
“We had mixed results against them, so every team is going to have a great game and no team is going to have an easy game. Every country has a great line-up.”
The next two world championships will count toward Olympic qualification points, but Morrison intends to dispel that notion as Scotland begin round robin play against Marianne Rohrvik's Norwegian Ring in Nova Scotia. That's what he said.
“This is a really important year,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. “But I try not to focus too much on that because the goal is the same. I just want to finish with the best possible result, so I don't have to think too much about it.”
“It's important to get as many wins as possible and if we look back at the weekend and achieve our goal, we'll be happy and it will mean we get a lot of Olympic qualification points.” To. “
Eve Muirhead, who last represented Scotland, had to progress through the Olympic qualifying tournament to win gold in Beijing two years ago, and Morrison has one of her squad, Jane Dodds, on the rink.
The 16 people above the Scots in the world rankings include six Canadians and two each from South Korea and the United States, but those countries can only send one team to the Sydney Center 200 in Cape Breton. .
World No. 1 Rachel Homan will start as the favorite in front of her home crowd, while Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni, who won the world title for the last four years in a row, is second, and South Korea's Eunji Gim is third. In 2018, Sweden's Anna Hasselborg was ranked. Olympic champion and currently ranked 5th in the world.
“We have gained a lot of experience from previous World Championships and we hope to build on that this week,” Morrison added.
“We have a long week ahead of us, so it’s important that we take it one game at a time, and the experience we had last year will help us get through that.”
