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Brendan Bottcher scored a 5-1 win over Kevin Koe to capture the Players' Championship title in Toronto on Sunday.

Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden advanced to the women's semifinal round at the Players Championship curling event Saturday with a 5-4 victory over Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa in Toronto.

The pressure to win in a curling, specifically to get to the Olympics, has been elevated to an entirely new level — and that’s forcing skips and teams to make very difficult decisions about who they want on their team, including long-time teammates.

Scotland's Bruce Mouat caught a piece of the button with his final throw for a 6-5 win over Winnipeg's Reid Carruthers on Friday morning at the Players' Championship. Meanwhile, Winnipeg's Jennifer Jones edged Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni 5-4 in an extra end.

Team Rachel Homan scored four points in the sixth end of an 8-5 victory over Team Tracy Fleury at the Players' Championship on Thursday.

Watch live action from the women's quarter-final match between Chelsea Carey and Robyn Silvernagle from the Grand Slam of Curling's Players' Championship.

It was an awkward practice for Team Epping on Tuesday in advance of the Grand Slam of Curling's Players' Championship in Toronto.

John Epping's Ontario rink will add Ryan Fry at third next season after his departure from Brad Jacobs' Northern Ontario powerhouse.

Canada's Kevin Koe settled for silver at the world men's curling championship after dropping a 7-2 decision to Sweden's Niklas Edin.

Skip Kevin Koe has taken the Canadian team on his back all week and guided them to victory. He's also shouldering the heavy weight of every Canadian curling fan's expectation for a gold medal. There's just one more game to go, Sunday night's championship final against Sweden's Niklas Edin.