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An early deficit was not enough to prevent Team Canada’s Chelsea Carey from registering her first career victory at the Ford World Women’s Curling Championship this afternoon in Swift Current.

Carey and her team consisting of Third Amy Nixon, Second Jocelyn Pederman and Lead Laine Peters fell behind Denmark’s Lene Nielsen 4-0 after two ends of play but used a consistent attack afterwards to register the come from behind win.

“Never in doubt,” Carey joked following the victory.

"We learned a lot, I'd approach the first two ends differently based on what we now know about the ice that we didn't really know coming in. All you want to do the first few games is learn a lot. We're back on that sheet a bunch more times so we wanted to feel really comfortable with it,” said Carey.

After surrendering what Carey referred to as a “soft” three in the first end, Denmark Skip Lene Nielsen made a perfect freeze in the second end to turn around what looked like a multiple score for Canada to a steal of one for the Danes.

Despite being in a 4-0 hole, Carey responded with a much needed deuce in the third end cutting the lead in half.

After a blank in four, Canada scored a steal of one in the fifth, as they trailed just 4-3 at the break.

In the sixth end momentum swung in Canada’s favour.

Nielsen had an open hit for two but rolled out with her last leaving the Danes with just a single point and a 5-3 lead.

With Denmark leading 5-4 in the eight, both teams struggled to position rocks, as many draws went deep behind the tee-line. Carey made a nice hit and roll with her last leaving Nielsen facing four Canadian stones around the four foot with her last. Nielsen would make no mistake with her last though hitting shot stone and rolling in for her point.

In the ninth end Canada took advantage of some early misses from Denmark and managed to score a three point end.

“We got a bit unlucky, we have a rock that over-curled quite a bit and took out one of our own. We really didn’t get the double after that and just didn’t make the shots in the end,” Nielsen said reflecting on the ninth end.

Team Denmark did pick up their single in the tenth to force an extra end, tied 7-7.

In the extra, Carey faced a hit and stick with her last for the win and made no mistake.

"It was the coolest thing," Carey said. "The crowd just went crazy when we had a wide-open shot to win. It doesn't get better than that.”

Team Canada will now look to improve to 2-0 tomorrow morning when they take on 2014 World Women’s champion Binia Feltscher and her Swiss rink, who picked up a 5-4 win over the USA in the opening draw.

Other winners in the afternoon draw included Japan and Russia.