Canada鈥檚 Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing suffered their first loss of the world mixed doubles curling championship on Sunday (April 23) in South Korea.

The duo fell 7-4 to Estonia鈥檚 Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill.

Holding a 4-3 edge after the sixth end, the Canadians surrendered a deuce in the seventh. Down 5-4 with the hammer in the eighth, Jones was light with her last-rock draw to the four-foot in an effort to tie the game and Estonia stole two to pad the victory.

鈥淚t was disappointing, but we know what we鈥檙e capable of and we know there is room for improvement,鈥� Jones said. 鈥淲e learned a lot about the ice and rocks and we鈥檙e going to keep trying to get better as the week goes on.鈥�

Canada enjoyed some early momentum with a deuce in the first end and having a 3-1 lead after three. However, that lead disappeared with singles in each of the next two, including a stolen one in the fifth from Estonia.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e a good team,鈥� Laing said. 鈥淏ut we had that game kind of in control and we missed the bad one in the fifth and they got a steal that got it close. But that鈥檚 not the story of the game.

鈥淎ll the credit to them, they won, but we kind of let it get away a little bit.鈥�

Canada opened round-robin play with a pair of wins over Scotland and the Netherlands on Saturday.

The Canadians will have another two-game day on Monday, taking on Italy in the morning draw and Australia in the evening draw.

The Canadian Press

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