VERNON, B.C. -- Canada's Jennifer Jones and China's Bingyu Wang head into Day 3 on Monday here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship as the lone remaining undefeated teams in the field.
Canada's Jones improved to 3-0 Sunday evening with an 11-6 win over Germany's Andrea Schoepp, while China's Wang also improved to 3-0 with an 8-4 win over Scotland's Gail Munro.
While Canada was widely expected to be a serious contender here on home ice this week, the unblemished play of the Chinese has surprised even the most optimistic observer.
But Wang, a 23-year-old student from Harbin, is keeping things in perspective.
"It's a good start," she said Sunday night. "We hope we can keep it going. But it doesn't really matter as long as we keep playing well."
Jones, meantime, summed up her attitude succintly on a day that saw Canada crack a six-ender in an 11-4 win over Czech Republic and then a five-ender in the win over Germany.
"We're feeling great," Jones said.
Jones was trailing Schoepp 3-2 when the German skip flashed a takeout attempt with her last rock of the fourth end. That left Jones needing only to draw the paint to score what proved to be a decisive five-ender.
Canada gets the bye on Monday morning before taking on Italy's Diana Gaspari on the afternoon draw and then Russia's Luidmila Privivkova on the evening draw.
In other games Sunday evening, Russia defeated Sweden 7-5 while Switzerland beat Czech Republic 9-5.
The worlds resumes Monday morning when Sweden plays Japan, China faces Denmark, Russia plays Italy and Scotland plays USA.
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