In a tight semi-final game in Saint John, the victors opened with a score of one in the first end before South Korean fourth player Un Chi Gim delivered her draw shot to score one point and tie the game at 1-1 in the second end.

The teams swapped single points in ends three and four, but Gim just caught a front guard as she attempted to remove a Swiss stone in the house in the fifth end, leaving Swiss skip Binia Feltscher a straightforward draw with her own last stone to score two points from the end and take a 4-2 lead.

Gim played a hit and stay to score a point for South Korea and reduce the Swiss lead to 4-3 in the sixth end, but the winners blanked the next two ends to keep last stone advantage.

Swiss skip Binia Feltscher shouts instructions to her sweepers during the semi-final ©CCA/Michael Burns


Turin 2006 Olympic silver medallist Feltscher played a well judged hit and roll out in the eighth end and Gim responded by attempting a heavy weight take-out with her last stone in the ninth, but left some Swiss stones in the house.

Feltscher then promoted one of her own stones to tap-out the one South Korean stone that was nestled among her own to score three points from the end and take a 7-3 lead.

The South Koreans ran out of stones in the tenth end to give Switzerland the victory at 7-3.

Following the game, Feltscher admitted she had not even thought about winning the world title, which is now a very real possibility when they take on Canada - who qualified direct from the page playoffs - tomorrow.

Un Chi Gim was a key player for South Korea in the tight semi-final match ©AFP/Getty Images


"I haven't even given it that much thought yet," she said.

"I'm just very happy with the silver medal, now.

"We had the advantage of the last rock and we felt very comfortable with that.

"We just played our game the way we had planned it."

Jisun Kim, South Korea's skip, was pragmatic about the loss and said her squad is now looking forward to the bronze medal game against Russia tomorrow.

"Our team members were great, but the Switzerland team was better than us," she explained.

"Such is life.

"With the fame of curling right now I think that tomorrow's game is very important for South Korea."

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