Nick Brett and Jamie Walker are eyeing a winner-takes-all showdown with India in Section B of the men’s pairs on Saturday after making it four wins from four.
The Team England pair saw off Namibia’s Christo Steenkamp and Waylon Wentzel 2-0 in the penultimate match of the group stage at Glasgow 2026 on Friday morning.
They must now overcome the other unbeaten pair of Navneet Singh and Dinesh Kumar in Saturday morning’s match to make certain of a place in the semi-finals later that day.
“We're in a good position. It's looking like it will be a straight quarter-final match against India,” Walker said.
“It's been a good set-up so far and if it carries on, we'll be in with a chance.”
And Katherine Rednall also has her destiny in her own hands tomorrow as she tops her women's singles group with four wins out of five, following two wins on Friday.
Rednall started with a 2-0 win over Emily Jim of the Cook Islands and followed that up in the evening session with a tense tie break victory over Connie-Leigh Rixon of Malta.
However, she had to fight back to do so, as she was a set and 7-3 down with two ends to play.
“I’m overwhelmed just to keep the dream alive, I thought I was gone," she said.
"I thought I was dead and buried in the second set at 7-3 down but managed to string something together out of nowhere to win it. The weight was so different to this morning. I played on that rink before and the lines were totally different. I just had to keep winning the ends and managed to dig in.”
Rednall is currently ahead of Australian Ellen Fife by just half a set, meaning she needs a straight sets win against Daphne Arthur-Almond of the Falkland Islands tomorrow to guarantee a semi-final spot.
“I’ll go into it the same as I have all the others," she added. "I’ll play to win and we’ll see what happens.”
In the para men’s pairs B6-B8, Joe Peplow and Kieran Rollings picked up their second win of Section A with a tie break win over Scotland, with the host nation getting plenty of backing from the crowd.
“We experienced a similar thing at Birmingham 2022. Obviously when it's home soil, you're going to get a big home crowd and they've turned up for all their matches,” Rollings said.
“When it's a derby match like England against Scotland, of course there is going to be a lot more Scottish support. But I think we all kept it under control, did well, and managed to get the win.”
It was a similarly close affair between the two nations in the para women’s pairs B6-B8 meeting too, but Helen Wood and Michelle White were beaten on a tie break after fighting back in the second set.
“I'm gutted," Wood admitted. "But we can’t go away disappointed because we put everything into that. We played so well. To get the second set back like we did, I really thought we were on a good roll but I was just short on the last end.”
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