Eve Muirhead's rink lost 10-4 to Sweden in the second of the morning session matches at the Tondiraba Ice Hall.

This was a re-run of last year's final and in the sixth end, Sweden's skip Anna Hasselborg played a controlled-weight hit to score three points and move into a 6-2 lead.

Later, in the ninth end, Hasselborg played another hit to score four points and take a 10-4 lead, at which point Scotland conceded. 

Afterwards, Hasselborg said: "It could have gone either way, I think. 

"It was a tight game, as always when you play this team. 

"I just think we played a little bit better on each position. 

"And they had to gamble a little bit."

Things went from bad to worse for the Scottish women in the evening session as they were beaten 8-7 by the Czech Republic.

But Sweden's day also went wrong as they were beaten 7-4 by Switzerland, who had beaten the Czech Republic 8-5 in their morning match.

All the evening session games were tight, with Germany beating Italy 8-7, Denmark earning a 6-5 win over Finland and Russia defeating Latvia 8-7.

Earlier in the day Latvia had beaten Denmark 8-6, Germany had defeated Finland 7-5 and Russia had beaten Italy 11-4.

Thus Switzerland and Russia are the only unbeaten women’s teams going into day three of the event.

In the men's event, Sweden's defending champions - and world champions - maintained their unbeaten status after two days thanks to an 11-2 defeat of Poland.

Italy, who beat Norway 7-5, are the only other unbeaten men's team in the round-robin following Scotland's 8-7 defeat by Russia.

In the two other men's matches played today, Switzerland beat The Netherlands 9-3, while Germany defeated Finland 7-3.