Canada skip Chelsea Carey, centre, takes a shot as teammates Jocelyn Peterman, left to right, Amy Nixon and Laine Peters look on during a practice session at the women’s world curling championship in Swift Current, Sask., on Friday.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press
Chelsea Carey's just going to have fun out there.
The Canadian skip will lead her Calgary-based rink against Russia's Anna Sidorova on Saturday afternoon in the 3-4 Page playoff of the women's curling world championship. Carey triumphed in a do-or-die round-robin game against Scotland on Thursday night to make the playoff and said after the win that relaxing and enjoying the moment were keys to her success.
So against Russia, she's just going to keep having fun.
"You've got to do what works," Carey said after practice on Friday afternoon. "Try to repeat everything that works and was a good thing and was successful, so that's what we'll try to do."
Carey and her teammates – third Amy Nixon, second Jocelyn Peterman and lead Laine Peters – planned to have a relaxing evening of going out to dinner, spending time with their families and getting to sleep at a reasonable hour before returning to the Credit Union iPlex on Saturday for the playoff match.
Sidorova beat Carey in their round-robin game, with Russia winning 6-3 in nine ends. Although the Russians scored four points in the final three ends of that game, Carey's unconcerned with how that result played out.
"It's not like we played badly. We didn't. We lost a battle and that happens," Carey said. "They're a good team, so you know it's going to be a battle. We came out on the wrong end of that one, but we'll come out the right end of this one.
Russia's skip also likes to take each game as a new challenge, independent of previous results.
"I believe that every game is a new game," Sidorova said. "Of course you can look back, but it doesn't mean anything. That's why we're looking to play our best and if we play our best, we have a good chance to win."
The winner of the 3-4 Page playoff will move on to Saturday night's semi-final, where they will face the loser of the 1-2 Page playoff between Switzerland and Japan that was set for Friday night.