Scottish skip Eve Muirhead was given a rude awakening at the women's curling World Championships as she fell to a heavy first defeat in her second game in Riga, Latvia.
Muirhead’s Scottish rink defeated Canada and Rachel Homan 6-4 in their opening encounter on Saturday but were no match for Swedish skip Margaretha Sigfridsson second time out.
Sweden scored three points in the first end when fourth player Maria Prytz drew into a busy house before following that up with a promote take-out of a solitary Scottish stone in the fourth.
That gave Sweden five points with the contest over in the sixth end with the score at 11-2 as Sigfridsson exacted revenge on Muirhead for defeat in page one-two play-off at the Europeans.
Sigfridsson fell 9-3 to Muirhead on home ice in December but recovered to take bronze as Scotland settled for silver and she admitted to enjoying every moment of their second successive win in Riga.
“We got off to a good start of course, and then we played better than they did. They had a few more good chances to score but we sorted out it,” said Sigfridsson.
“We usually like to play Scotland in the round-robin because we usually win and it was a great win.”
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