World Men's Curling: Scotland round off failed bid with a win

Tom Brewster's rink are the current Scottish champions

Scotland rounded off their round-robin matches at the World Men's Curling Championship in Basel with a 6-4 win over Sweden.

However, Tom Brewster's rink had already had their slim hopes of reaching the play-offs dashed with an extra-end 7-6 defeat by Denmark.

Brewster, Hammy McMillan, Ross Paterson and Glen Muirhead won five matches and lost six, finishing seventh.

Hosts Canada, Denmark, Japan and the USA progress to the play-offs.

Brewster said after the win over Sweden: "It's always great to beat a world champion.

"However, we went in there not even thinking about them being world champions but thinking about them being the great team that they are, and knowing that it's always a tough game against them."

Results

Session 1: Sweden 8-5 Japan; Korea 3-9 Scotland; Norway 11-3 Russia; Germany 2-8 Switzerland

Session 2: Russia 9-8 Korea; USA 1-7 Denmark; Canada 7-3 Finland; Norway 3-6 Scotland

Session 3: Switzerland 5-9 Sweden, Germany 3-8 Japan

Session 4: Denmark 8-11 Canada, Scotland 6-9 Russia, Korea 6-9 Norway, USA 7-5 Finland

Session 5: Japan 9-6 Switzerland, Canada 10-9 USA, Finland 2-9 Denmark, Sweden 8-4 Germany

Session 6: Germany 2-8 Norway, Switzerland 12-4 Korea, Sweden 4-3 Russia, Japan 6-5 Scotland

Session 7: Korea 4-6 Finland, Norway 8-6 Denmark, Scotland 3-5 Canada, Russia 6-9 USA

Session 8: USA 8-3 Sweden, Canada 9-2 Japan, Denmark 9-1 Germany, Finland 12-6 Switzerland

Session 9: Denmark 7-5 Japan, Finland 8-6 Sweden, USA 9-7 Switzerland, Canada 6-3 Germany

Session 10: Switzerland 5-4 Scotland, Germany 7-2 Russia, Japan 6-3 Korea, Sweden 4-6 Norway

Session 11: Russia 2-7 Canada, Scotland 7-9 USA, Norway 7-5 Finland, Korea 8-5 Denmark

Session 12: Norway 3-8 USA, Korea 2-9 Canada, Russia 1-9 Denmark, Scotland 7-3 Finland

Session 13: Finland 9-1 Germany, Denmark 7-6 Switzerland, Canada 3-4 Sweden, USA 7-8 Japan

Session 14: Sweden 7-4 Korea, Japan 6-4 Norway, Germany 6-7 Scotland, Switzerland 6-3 Russia

Session 15: Scotland 6-7 Denmark, Russia 3-9 Finland, Korea 6-8 USA, Norway 4-6 Canada

Session 16: Japan 7-2 Russia, Sweden 4-6 Scotland, Switzerland 4-7 Norway, Germany 6-9 Korea

Session 17: Canada 8-2 Switzerland, USA 6-5 Germany, Finland 5-7 Japan, Denmark 8-7 Sweden

Standings

Canada 10-1 (Q)

Denmark 8-3 (Q)

Japan 8-3 (Q)

USA 8-3 (Q)

Norway 7-4

Sweden 6-5

Scotland 5-6

Finland 5-6

Switzerland 4-7

Russia 2-9

Korea 2-9

Germany 1-10