6-1 championship phase! The men's curling team 8-7 Austria in the seventh round, with a one-day double win, ranked No.1

On April 2, Beijing time, the World Men's Curling Championship came to the seventh round of the competition, after 5 wins and 1 loss, we temporarily ranked first in the standings, and the opponent in this round is the Austrian team ranked 111th in the world, the opponent has lost all six games in this World Championships, and has not yet tasted victory. The match between the top team and the bottom team is naturally not very suspenseful, but Fei Xueqing made two mistakes in the first half, and the score did not widen, but the overall advantage was maintained. At the end of the half, Xu Xiaoming led the men's curling team to lead 4-2 and 2 points into the second half. In the second half, the players were tired, Xu Xiaoming's success rate declined, and finally won 8-7 in the tenth game and became the first in the standings.

In the first game, we had a chance to play back, and the two sides did not have too much stalemate after the game began, both teams chose to read the ice to understand the ice surface, and we did not choose to score points in the back hand, and the two sides drew 0-0 to the second game, and we were still in the back hand. In the second game, several of our pots were slightly off, due to the principle of five-pot protection, our split pot made a mistake, and the opponent did not take advantage of the opportunity, the players said that the ice was slippery at this time, and the hanging pots of both teams were difficult to control. The Austrian player's double flight failed, Fei Xueqing continued to hang the pot into the center of the circle, and the two parallel pots did not give the opponent the angle of double flying. Xu Xiaoming's hanging pot was not in place, and the opponent did not seize the opportunity, and we scored 2 points in the back hand to lead 2-0.

In the third game, we first controlled the score, the first half of the game was relatively smooth, we formed an advantage in the center of the circle, but Fei Xueqing's first pot appeared to slip, and the opponent got the opportunity to continue to beat our scoring pot in the center of the circle. The captain played a double fly to successfully resolve the possibility of the Austrian team to get a big point, Xu Xiaoming played a wonderful pass in the last pot, and it became difficult for the opponent to get 2 points, and Matthias made a mistake in the hanging pot under pressure, and we stole 1 point first, and the score came to a 3-0 lead.

In the fourth game, we still took the lead, although we succeeded in stealing points in the last game, but the performance of the players was not good enough, especially the big mistake of the tip slippery, and the players played more cautiously in this game. At the critical moment, Fei Xueqing's second pot made another big mistake, and the scoring pot in the center of his own circle was knocked out, and Xu Xiaoming continued to face the key shot to save the defeat. Xu Xiaoming completed both goals but was not good enough, Matthias was determined to help the team get two points, and the first four games between the two sides were still 3-2 ahead.

In the fifth game of the first half, Austria had an excellent position in the middle of the first two pots, and we entered the center of the scoring area for two consecutive pots. With the success of the opponent's double flight, we have no scoring pot in the center of the circle, and we have the option of choosing 0 points to get back the even number of games in this game. Xu Xiaoming then did not choose this tactic, the two opponents' pots were contained in the center of the circle, Fei Xueqing's sticky pot was not ideal, the opponent Shuangfei beat it, and Xu Xiaoming continued to choose the sticky pot. Matthias continued to double and we picked up one point from behind. The first half led 4-2 into the second half.

The second half was more intense, Austria improved their form and we had some fluctuations. We were very tired in continuous battles, but in the last game, Xu Xiaoming led the team to achieve score control and won 8-7.