{"id":551864,"date":"2026-03-21T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551864\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:37:08","slug":"japan-downs-turkey-in-playoff-to-advance-to-semifinal-showdown-versus-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551864\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan downs Turkey in playoff to advance to semifinal showdown versus Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Kerri Einarson will face Japan in semifinal action Saturday at the women&#8217;s world curling championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese rink advanced to the semifinal round with a 7-5 playoff win over Turkey earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Switzerland will take on Sweden in the other semifinal. The Swedes dispatched South Korea 9-5 in the second playoff contest.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland (11-1) and Canada (10-2) claimed the first two spots in the overall standings after pool play to to gain direct entry into the semifinals. The other four squads qualified for playoff action.<\/p>\n<p>The medal games are Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Kerri Einarson will face Japan in semifinal action Saturday at the women&#8217;s world curling championship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2454,214288,44,214287,214289,834,3848,214290],"class_list":["post-551864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-japan","tag-kerri-einarson","tag-news","tag-semifinal-action","tag-semifinal-round","tag-switzerland","tag-turkey","tag-world-curling-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}