Rachel Homan of Ottawa, Ontario, won the 2023 Masters title on Sunday in the third Grand Slam of Curling event of the season. In the final, Team Homan defeated a curling team from Switzerland, skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni, 8-4 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
This was Homan’s fourth Masters title, having previously won in 2013, 2014 and 2016. It was her 14th Grand Slam of Curling overall, as she also won two Tour Challenges (2019 and 2023), two national titles (2016 and 2019). two Canadian Opens (2016 and 2019) and four Champions Cups (2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023).
The only Grand Slam of Curling event that Homan has never won is the Players’ Championship. Ironically, this is the event where she curled the most of any Grand Slam event, having attended twelve times. Homan’s best result there was reaching the final three times (losing to Canadian Olympic champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, Manitoba 7-5 in 2011 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, losing again to Jones in the final 5-2 in Summerside in 2014 , Prince). Edward Island and then against Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba in the final 5-2 in 2021 in Calgary, Alberta). Jones won the gold medal in women’s curling 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
In Saskatoon last week, Homan posted a record of six wins and one loss. She won Pool D with a record of three wins and one loss (defeating Clancy Grandy of Vancouver, British Columbia 6-1, Tirizoni 7-3 and Anna Hasselborg of Sweden 7-5 before losing to Eun-jung Kim South Korea lost by 8). -6). In the quarterfinals, Homan defeated Sweden’s Isabelle Wrana 8:3 and in the semifinals, Jones 8:4.
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