Scotland sit third bottom after day three at World Curling

Sophie Jackson is the Scotland lead

World Women's Curling Championship

Venue: Uijeongbu, South Korea Dates: 15-23 March

Coverage: Watch selected Scotland matches live on the BBC Sport website, app & iPlayer

Scotland have slipped to third bottom of the round-robin standings at the World Women's Curling Championships after ending Monday's play in South Korea with a 6-5 defeat by Switzerland.

Sophie Jackson's rink had defeated Stefania Constantini's 15th-ranked Italians 7-5 earlier in the day.

But Alina Patz's single at the 10th end retained the second-ranked Swiss side's 100% record at the top of the standings along with the hosts after five games.

Scotland's European bronze medallists, currently ranked 19th in the world, had started their campaign with a surprise 8-7 win over Rachel Homan's reigning champions and top seeds from Canada, who have since won their next three games.

However, single-shot defeats by Marianne Roervik's 32nd-ranked Norway and Eunji Gim's fifth-ranked South Korea followed and the Scots are in a group of six teams with just two wins - and with just newcomers Lithuania and Turkey below them after they lost all their games.

Scotland second Sophie Sinclair described it as "a tough loss to take" after the Swiss, skipped by four-time world champion Silvana Tirinzoni, secured their victory thanks to a fortunate glance off a stone with Patz's final delivery.

"We felt like we really had control of the game and we were all playing really well and we felt confident and comfortable on the ice, so it is a hard one," she said.

"Losses like that are definitely frustrating, but we are all actually feeling really positive, because we are playing really well and we outplayed one of the best teams in the world, so we can only take confidence from that and I think it is only up from here."

Scotland take on 2018 Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg's third-ranked Sweden (05:00 GMT), currently lying fifth with three wins and two defeats, then Virginija Paulauskaite's Lithuania (10:00) on Tuesday.

The top eight nations in the Olympic standings at the end of the event are assured of their places at Milan/Cortina 2026.

Great Britain currently sit eighth after Jackson and her team's showing at the 2024 World Championship.