In the 11th round of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics men's curling round robin tournament, the Chinese men's curling team scored 2 points with the 10th set, and then narrowly defeated the Swiss men's curling team 6-5, ending the round robin tour of the Winter Olympics with a victory, the final result was 4 wins and 5 losses, basically determined that there was no semi-final competition, while the opponent Swiss team was 3 wins and 5 losses, and there was a round of competition. Trailing the 4th-placed Olympic teams of the United States and Russia by one win, the Swiss team was in a precarious position.
Before this match, the Swedish men's team ranked first with 7 wins and 1 loss to advance to the semi-finals, and the British team, which was temporarily ranked 2nd, had entered the semi-finals with 6 wins and 1 loss, the 3rd place was Canada's 5 wins and 3 losses, and the 4th place was the United States and Russia's Olympic teams with 4 wins and 4 losses each, and the above 5 teams had occupied a favorable position in the semi-finals. Switzerland is 6th with 3 wins and 4 losses, China and Norway are both tied for 7th with 3 wins and 5 losses, Italy is 9th with 2 wins and 5 losses, and Denmark is at the bottom with 1 win and 6 losses.
Although the situation of the Chinese men's team qualifying before the game is very slim, because the top 5 teams will definitely have 4 teams with a final result of better than 5 wins and 4 losses, so that even if the Chinese team defeats the Swiss team in the last game, it will not be able to surpass the previous opponent and advance to the final semi-finals, in fact, the last game has become a battle of honor. The Swiss team wants to qualify for this game because of the previous 3 wins and 4 losses, otherwise it will also face the danger of being out.
In the first set, both sides were in the tentative stage, trying to find out the state and habit line of each type of player of the opponent, and did not rush to choose to hit and get points, and finally the Swiss team at the back saw that the situation was not good and chose not to score. In the second set, the Swiss team ushered in a good scoring opportunity, seized the mistake of the Chinese team to throw, and the last pot of rotary pot into the camp, took the opportunity to score 2 points, and made a 2-0 start. The swiss team's tactical success in the 3rd game was to choose to concentrate on cleaning up the Chinese team's pot and not give the Chinese team the opportunity to get high scores, and finally the Chinese team was controlled by the opponent to score only 1 point. In the 4th inning, the Swiss team backhand was also controlled by the Chinese team with the same obstacle clearance tactics, as the Swiss team won 1 point, the score came to 3-1.In the 5th inning, the Chinese team threw the pot with the backhand, the Swiss team hit the third base Michelle hard enough, did not achieve the desired effect, the Chinese team took the opportunity to stand in the border area, forming a 2-point containment, although the Swiss fourth baseman Schwartz first shot was thrown, but the backhand advantage of the Chinese fourth baseman Ma Xiuyue successfully scored 2 points after the last shot, the first half was pulled 3-3.
In the 6th inning, the Swiss team backhand faced a complex and dangerous situation, did not risk the choice of hitting, directly gave up no points, and continued to retain the backhand in the 7th inning, but China's fourth base Ma Xiuyue played the best state since the start of the Winter Olympics, the last shot was double-flying, the Swiss fourth base Schwartz could only choose the rotary pot to enter the camp to get 1 point, the total score came to 4-3. The Swiss team in the 8th inning tried to be tactically simple, directly clearing the Chinese standing pot and scoring pot, and the last shot of the Chinese fourth baseMan Ma Xiuyue also chose the rotary pot into the camp to pull 4-4.
In the 9th inning, the Swiss team wanted to score high points to take advantage of the opportunity to open the score, the two sides launched a fierce throwing war, the Chinese team's fourth base Ma Xiuyue chose the opponent's pot in the last shot, and the last shot of the Swiss fourth base could not risk hitting, choosing a conservative rotary pot to get 1 point. In the 10th inning, China held the backhand, the lowest goal must be to keep 1 point and the opponent play overtime, the Chinese team first base jug, the second base bilateral zone position, under pressure the Swiss team had a low-level mistake, the third base Michelle played double fly, after throwing the pot teammates rubbed the ice accidentally touched their own pot, China's third base Zou strong rotary pot into the camp to form a 2-point containment, the last throw of the Swiss third base failed, the pressure instantly gave the Swiss fourth base, at this time the Chinese team has three scoring pots in the camp, the Swiss fourth base Schwartz double fly knocked out two, With one scoring pot left, the last swiss four-base sticky pot deviation, Ma Xiuyue won with one blow, knocking the opponent's pot out of the camp, and the Chinese team scored 2 points and narrowly won 6-5, ending the men's curling tour of the Winter Olympics with a victory.