The Scots have recovered from opening defeats by seven-time champion Niklas Edin’s Swedes and Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi’s Japanese.
Since then, solely hosts United States have completed inside two pictures of the Scots as they’ve reeled off seven huge scores, with Xu Xiaoming’s Chinese language, ranked twelfth on the earth, the newest victims.
Following on from Tuesday’s 10-4 defeat of Germany, Whyte’s rink by no means appeared again after stealing one on the opening finish.
Nevertheless, it was scoring 5 on the sixth finish, to take an 8-3 lead, that was the pivotal second because the Chinese language suffered a sixth defeat out of 9.
On the similar time, the Swiss have been struggling an exciting last-stone, 8-7 defeat by Matt Dunstone’s Canadians, who be a part of the Scots, Hoesli’s rink and Edin’s Swedes on the prime of the spherical robin with seven wins and two defeats every.
The highest six progress, with the highest two going straight into the semi-finals and the opposite 4 groups competing to hitch them.
Whyte – together with Robin Brydone, Euan Kyle and Craig Waddell – are representing Scotland after Mouat’s world primary rink elected to not compete after their silver medal on the Olympics in Cortina this 12 months.
With Canada’s Olympic champion, Brad Jacobs, and Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller equally sitting this one out, fourth-ranked Dunstone and Whyte, in fifth, are the top-ranked groups competing in the USA.
Edin is at present ranked 13, with Hoesli in 18, whereas Scotland’s subsequent opponents, Norway’s Haarstad are down in forty ninth.
