On February 10, the Chinese women's curling team began the first game of the Winter Olympics, the opponent was the 4th place Danish team in the 2021 World Championships, both sides were more cautious in the first 5 innings of the first half, did not choose to rush to hit the attack, the two sides fought to 3-3, but the Denmark team seized the mistakes of the Chinese team in the 7th innings to get 3 points, laying the victory in one fell swoop, although the Chinese team stubbornly chased the points, the 9th set stole points to chase 6-6, but the 10th innings Denmark team won 1 point with the advantage of the backhand to kill the Chinese team steadily, Won the opening of this Winter Olympic Games.
The Chinese women's curling team developed rapidly in the Vancouver Winter Olympic cycle and became one of the world's most powerful teams, the captain at that time, the fourth base Wang Bingyu, the third base Liu Yin, the second base Yue Qingshuang, the first base Zhou Yan cooperated in two Olympic cycles, won the 2009 World Championships championship and the third place in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, and the world's strongest teams Canada, Sweden and Switzerland had wins and losses, but after the 4-person retirement, the Chinese women's curling team fell into a trough and did not climb the podium of the competition again. Denmark, the first opponent of the Winter Olympics, has improved rapidly in the past two years, from obscurity to reaching the semifinals of last year's World Championships, when the two teams lost in a 5-14 gap when the two teams met in the round robin, and the Chinese team finally ranked only 10th.
After the start of the game, the Chinese team threw pots successively in the first round, choosing to clean up the Danish team's pot-based tactical play, the Danish team saw that the possibility of getting high scores was not, chose not to score, directly threw their own pots, and continued to retain the advantage of the backhand to fight the second set. In the 2nd inning, China's second base dong ziqi had a pitching deviation, and the power of a spinning pot was a bit too large, allowing Denmark to seize this mistake and take advantage of the situation to score 2 points, and the score became 2-0! In the 3rd inning, the Chinese team held the backhand advantage, but there was another mistake, and Wang Rui, who was third baseman, failed to control the force in two consecutive throws, and also made the Plan for the Chinese team to score 3 points at a time, and after this inning, the Chinese team fell behind 1-2.
In the 4th inning, the Chinese team threw the pot first, and the tactics clearly tried to simply clean the opponent's pot, so that the opponent could not get a high score, and the Danish team finally scored 1 point with the fourth base DuPont's rotary pot, and the score became Denmark's 3-1 lead. In the 5th inning, the backhand of the Chinese team, the Danish team's standing pot was cleared by the Chinese team in turn, and the pot in the base camp was beaten away by the Chinese team's fourth baseman Han Yu, the Chinese team scored 2 points, and the two sides made a 3-3 battle in the first half!
In the 6th inning, the Danish backhand was tightly controlled by the Chinese team, seeing the possibility of up to 1 point, the Danish team's fourth baseman Dupont continued to choose not to score, and continued to throw the pot in the 7th inning. The 7th inning is the key game of the game, in the case of the Chinese team's first hand, the first three bases are trying to control the Danish team to get high scores, the opponent four base DuPont one hit to win, after playing a double fly their own pot has the possibility of taking 3 points, while China's fourth baseman Han Yu is only 21 years old, the first time she participated in the big game She was slightly nervous, two consecutive attempts to play double fly failure, but also let the opponent get 3 points in one fell swoop, the score was stretched to 6-3.
In the 8th round, the Chinese team threw the pot with the back hand, but the fourth base Han Yu made a mistake in the first throw, and after choosing to throw his own pot was not in the base camp, the Chinese team lost the hope of getting a high score, and the last shot faced the Danish team there was a danger of stealing points, Han Yu chose to spin the pot into the camp to get 1 point, The score was fought to 4-6.The 9th innings of the Chinese team took the lead, but this time the fourth baseman Han Yu double-flew, giving the Danish fourth base Dupont a huge pressure, DuPont stole 2 points after the last shot error, the score became 6-6.The last set Denmark is still the backhand, the Chinese team chose to occupy the first hand, but the opponent was all cleaned up, although Han Yu was successful in the first shot, there was a chance to steal points to win, but the old spicy Danish fourth baseman DuPont's last shot into the camp did not give the Chinese team the opportunity to steal points continuously, and after getting 1 point, it narrowly won the Chinese team 7-6.