With the top six teams securing their places in the knockout stages, and the top two teams handed a bye, China had all but secured their place in the next round, but needed two wins on the final day of preliminary matches to ensure safe passage through to the semi-finals.

In the morning session, they dispatched with Norway with relative ease in an 8-4 win, before returning in the evening and beating Sweden 6-4.

The Russian Curling Federation (RCF) were also handed a bye as they finished with eight wins. 

In today's action, the RCF hammered Switzerland 13-0 in the morning session, before surprisingly losing to South Korea 8-4 in the evening.

The four quarter-final teams are Sweden, the United States - both of whom finished equal with the RCF with eight wins and three losses - Canada, with sevens wins and four losses and Scotland, with six wins and five losses.

Canada secured their place in the knockout stages with a 6-2 win over Latvia and a tense 7-6 victory over Italy, while Scotland lost to Slovakia and the US but already had enough wins in the bag to be confident of their place in the quarter-finals.

Tomorrow's quarter-finals see the US face Canada, with the winner playing China, and Sweden and Scotland, the RCF awaiting the victor.