The 2022
Princess Auto Players' Championship was held April 12–17 at the
Mattamy Athletic Centre
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in
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,
Ontario
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. It was the fourth
Grand Slam
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and final major of the
2021–22 curling season
The 2021–22 curling season began in June 2021 and ended in May 2022.
''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.''
World Curling Federation events
Source:
Championshi ...
, following the cancellation of the
Meridian Open.
Despite feeling ill in the final due to food poisoning,
Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...
led her team to their seventh Grand Slam title, and completed a career Grand Slam, becoming the first women's team to do so.
Qualification
The top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the
World Curling Federation
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's world team rankings qualified for the event.
In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete.
Men
Top world team ranking men's teams:
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Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 ...
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Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
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Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curling, curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip (curling), skip of the Canadian men's team at the Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's to ...
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Niklas Edin
Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF) history to win three Olympic medals – gold (2022), silver (2018), and bronze ( ...
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Brad Jacobs
Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Oly ...
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Glenn Howard
Glenn William Howard (born July 17, 1962) is a retired Canadian curler who is one of the most decorated curlers of all time. He has won four world championships, four Briers and 17 Ontario provincial championships, including a record eight s ...
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Matt Dunstone
Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Career
Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curli ...
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Colton Flasch
Colton Flasch (born February 27, 1991) is a Canadian curler currently residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently plays third on Team Mike McEwen.
Career Juniors
After having curled with the Mike Armstrong junior rink, Flasch joined the ...
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Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Michael Bottcher (born December 19, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Spruce Grove, Alberta. Bottcher is a three-time provincial men's champion, and was the skip of the 2021 Canadian men's championship team, having led Alberta to victory ...
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Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson is a Canadian curler currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Gunnlaugson is known for having been hired by the Russian Curling Federation (RCF) to represent the country at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The deal which was announced ...
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Mike McEwen
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Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...
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Steffen Walstad
Steffen Walstad (born 10 February 1989 in Oppdal Municipality) is a Norwegian curler from Oppdal.
Career Juniors
Walstad played in three World Junior Curling Championships, from 2008 to 2010 inclusive. At the 2008 World Junior Curling Champio ...
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Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva.
Career
Juniors
Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...
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Marco Hösli
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Peter de Cruz
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Joël Retornaz
Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...
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John Epping
John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto.
Career
Junior Men's
Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top ...
Women
Top world team ranking women's teams:
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Eve Muirhead
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Tracy Fleury
Tracy Fleury (born Tracy Horgan; June 13, 1986) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season, and now plays third on the team. With Homan, she won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of ...
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Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...
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Satsuki Fujisawa
is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
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Jennifer Jones
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Silvana Tirinzoni
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Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...
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Kim Eun-jung
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Tabitha Peterson
Tabitha Skelly Peterson (born March 6, 1989) is an American curler from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships and is a three-time women's national champion. She currently is skip of her own t ...
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Laura Walker
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Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Manitoba. She is the and Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba p ...
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Rachel Homan
Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...
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Mackenzie Zacharias
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Alina Kovaleva
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Krista McCarville
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Gim Eun-ji
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World W ...
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Daniela Jentsch
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Career
Jentsch played in her first international compet ...
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Hollie Duncan
Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987, in Toronto, Ontario, as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour.
Career Juniors
As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club ri ...
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Isabella Wranå
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout brackets
Source:
A event
B event
C event
Knockout results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
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(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 3
''Tuesday, April 12, 3:00 pm''
Draw 4
''Tuesday, April 12, 6:30 pm''
Draw 7
''Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 pm''
Draw 8
''Wednesday, April 13, 8:00 pm''
Draw 9
''Thursday, April 14, 8:30 am''
Draw 10
''Thursday, April 14, 12:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Thursday, April 14, 4:00 pm''
Draw 12
''Thursday, April 14, 8:00 pm''
Draw 13
''Friday, April 15, 8:30 am''
Draw 15
''Friday, April 15, 4:00 pm''
Draw 17
''Saturday, April 16, 8:30 am''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, April 16, 4:00 pm''
Semifinals
''Saturday, April 16, 8:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, April 17, 4:00 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout brackets
Source:
A event
B event
C event
Knockout results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
* Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behi ...
(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
''Tuesday, April 12, 8:00 am''
Draw 2
''Tuesday, April 12, 11:30 am''
Draw 5
''Wednesday, April 13, 8:30 am''
Draw 6
''Wednesday, April 13, 12:00 pm''
Draw 9
''Thursday, April 14, 8:30 am''
Draw 10
''Thursday, April 14, 12:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Thursday, April 14, 4:00 pm''
Draw 12
''Thursday, April 14, 8:00 pm''
Draw 13
''Friday, April 15, 8:30 am''
Draw 14
''Friday, April 15, 12:00 pm''
Draw 16
''Friday, April 15, 8:00 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, April 16, 12:00 pm''
Semifinals
''Saturday, April 16, 8:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, April 17, 12:00 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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