VERNON, B.C. -- Denmark's Angelina Jensen clinched a playoff tiebreaker for her team and put a bit of a kink into Canada's playoff plans here at the Ford World Womens Curling Championship Thursday morning.

Jensen jumped out to a 3-0 lead over Canada's Jennifer Jones and never looked back, cruising to a 6-3 victory that seemed never much in doubt.

The win improved Denmark to 7-3 and it guarantees they will play in at least a playoff tiebreaker game on Friday.

The loss dropped Canada's record to 8-2. That puts them into a tie for second place with Switzerland's Mirjam Ott, who was a 7-4 winner over USA's Debbie McCormick.

The loss dropped USA's record to 5-5 and eliminates them from playoff contention.

China was idle Thursday morning and remains at 8-1.

In other games Thursday morning, Japan beat Germany 9-4, while Italy beat Czech Republic 6-3.

The win by Japan improved their record to 6-4 and kept them in playoff contention. Germany, Italy and Czech Republic had already been eliminated.

Also still in playoff contention is Sweden, who head into a game this afternoon against Denmark at 5-4. The Swedes finish their round-robin with a game against Canada Thursday night.

With a win against Sweden, Canada would guarantee themselves a berth in Friday's page playoff 1 vs 2 game.

"Obviously, we'd like to pick it up and play a little better," said Canada third Cathy Overton-Clapham.

But Danish vice-skip Madeleine Dupont couldn't be happier with how her team is playing.

"Seriously, I didn't think we'd beat (Canada) today. We weren't so confident today," Dupont said.

The worlds resumes Thursday afternoon when Scotland plays Italy, Russia plays USA, China plays Japan and Sweden plays Denmark.

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