The Japan women's curling team suffered its first loss of the Pyeongchang Olympics on Saturday, the foursome letting an early lead slip from its fingers to lose 7-6 against China.
Skip Satsuki Fujisawa and crew stole a point to make it 3-0 in the second end, though a heavy last throw in the sixth end, meant it missed on recording an easy second shot and ultimately proved to be the team's undoing.
China's decision to blank the seventh end paid off when it followed up with three points to take the lead at 6-5. Japan equalized in the 10th to carry the game into an extra end, but could not keep China skip Wang Bingyu from clinching it with a simple, unimpeded draw to the button.