The 2019 Players' Championship was held from April 9 to 14 at the

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in Toronto, Ontario. It was the seventh Grand Slam event of the

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. In the men's final, Brendan Bottcher defeated Kevin Koe 6–1. Team Bottcher was playing in their third straight Grand Slam final. In the women's final,

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defeated

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5–4 in an extra end. It was the second final that Team Einarson played in that season.

Qualification

The top 12 ranked men's and women's teams on the World Curling Tour's Year-to-Date ranking as of March 11 qualified for the event.

Men

Top Year-to-Date men's teams as of March 11: # Kevin Koe # Brad Jacobs # Brendan Bottcher # Bruce Mouat # Niklas Edin # John Epping # Brad Gushue # Ross Paterson # Glenn Howard # Matt Dunstone # Peter de Cruz # Reid Carruthers

Women

Top Year-to-Date women's teams as of March 11: # Rachel Homan #

# Silvana Tirinzoni # Jennifer Jones (curler), Jennifer Jones # Chelsea Carey # Satsuki Fujisawa # Tracy Fleury # Robyn Silvernagle # Casey Scheidegger # ~~Alina Kovaleva~~ # Sayaka Yoshimura # Elena Stern

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).

Draw 1

''Tuesday, April 9, 7:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Wednesday, April 10, 8:30 am''

Draw 3

''Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Wednesday, April 10, 4:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, April 10, 8:00 pm''

Draw 6

''Thursday, April 11, 8:30 am''

Draw 7

''Thursday, April 11, 12:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Thursday, April 11, 4:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Thursday, April 11, 8:00 pm''

Draw 10

''Friday, April 12, 8:30 am''

Draw 11

''Friday, April 12, 12:00 pm''

Draw 13

''Friday, April 12, 8:00 pm''

Tiebreakers

''Saturday, April 13, 8:30 am'' ''Saturday, April 13, 12:00 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, April 13, 4:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, April 13, 8:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, April 14, 12:00 pm''