Olympics-Curling-Hasselborg's Sweden beat Switzerland to maintain winning run

By Aadi Nair

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Anna Hasselborg's Sweden continued their perfect start to the women's competition at the Winter Olympics on Monday as they beat Switzerland 6-4 to pick up their sixth straight win and cement their position at the top of the round-robin standings.

While Sweden already had five victories to their name, the game against Silvana Tirinzoni's Switzerland, who are four-times world champions, was the toughest test of their campaign.

"We know they were the team to beat," said Hasselborg, who won gold at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang and bronze in Beijing four years ago.

"They've had an amazing season and we haven't played them this year, but they have played so well. So we just wanted to go out there and play the other rock colour and just make our shots.

"We were playing well and we were like, and we went pretty hard, like offensive and made a lot of good draws today."

Rachel Homan's Canada were much-improved as they beat China 10-5 to claim their second win of the competition.

Canada are two-times world champions and were pre-tournament favourites to win gold, but Homan's record at the Olympics is poor.

She has participated in the past two Games, finishing outside the qualification spots for the semi-finals on both occasions.

Canada are joint-sixth in the standings with two wins from five games, level with Sophie Jackson's Britain, who beat Denmark 7-2.