The 2021 Masters was held October 19 to 24 at the

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in Oakville,

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. It was the first

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and first major of the 2021–22 season.

Qualification

The top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the

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's world team rankings qualified for the event. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete.

Men

Top world team ranking men's teams: #

Brad Jacobs Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Oly ...

John Epping John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto. Career Junior Men's Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top ...

Brad Gushue Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 ...

Brendan Bottcher Brendan Michael Bottcher (born December 19, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Spruce Grove, Alberta. Bottcher is a three-time provincial men's champion, and was the skip of the 2021 Canadian men's championship team, having led Alberta to victory ...

Bruce Mouat Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...

Yannick Schwaller Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva. Career Juniors Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...

# Mike McEwen #

Niklas Edin Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF) history to win three Olympic medals – gold (2022), silver (2018), and bronze ( ...

Peter de Cruz Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his ...

Kevin Koe Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curling, curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip (curling), skip of the Canadian men's team at the Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's to ...

Matt Dunstone Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curli ...

Ross Paterson Ross Paterson (born March 13, 1984) is a retired Scottish curler from Glasgow. During his career, he represented Scotland at four World Men's Curling Championships and four European Curling Championships, winning a bronze medal at both the 201 ...

Jason Gunnlaugson Jason Gunnlaugson is a Canadian curler currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Gunnlaugson is known for having been hired by the Russian Curling Federation (RCF) to represent the country at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The deal which was announced ...

# Korey Dropkin Korey Dropkin (born June 11, 1995) is an American curler originally from Southborough, Massachusetts. He currently skips his own team out of Duluth, Minnesota. Curling career Juniors As a junior curler, Dropkin won three United States Juni ...
#

Rich Ruohonen Richard Ruohonen (born March 31, 1971) is an American curler from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He is a two-time national champion and as such represented the United States at the 2008 and 2018 World Men's Curling Championships. Career Ruohonen mad ...

# Yuta Matsumura #

Ross Whyte Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...

Women

Top world team ranking women's teams: #

Anna Hasselborg Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born Tracy Horgan; June 13, 1986) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season, and now plays third on the team. With Homan, she won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of ...

Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...

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# ~~Elena Stern~~ #

Silvana Tirinzoni Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...

# Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the bron ...
#

Tabitha Peterson Tabitha Skelly Peterson (born March 6, 1989) is an American curler from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships and is a three-time women's national champion. She currently is skip of her own t ...

# Kim Min-ji # Alina Kovaleva # Kim Eun-jung #

Sayaka Yoshimura is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's C ...

# Gim Un-chi # Kelsey Rocque #

Isabella Wranå Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of F ...

Tori Koana is a Japanese curling, curler. She was the skip (curling), skip of Team Fujikyu, and now focuses on mixed doubles with curling partner Go Aoki Career Womens Koana found success in women's curling during the 2017–2018 season, where she would s ...

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout brackets

Source:

A event

B event

C event

Knockout results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−04:00).

Draw 3

''Tuesday, October 19, 3:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Tuesday, October 19, 6:30 pm''

Draw 7

''Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Wednesday, October 20, 8:00 pm''

Draw 10

''Thursday, October 21, 11:00 am''

Draw 12

''Thursday, October 21, 7:00 pm''

Draw 13

''Friday, October 22, 7:30 am''

Draw 14

''Friday, October 22, 11:00 am''

Draw 16

''Friday, October 22, 7:00 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, October 23, 12:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, October 23, 8:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, October 24, 4:00 pm''

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout brackets

Source:

A event

B event

C event

Knockout results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−04:00).

Draw 1

''Tuesday, October 19, 8:00 am''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, October 19, 11:30 am''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, October 20, 8:00 am''

Draw 6

''Wednesday, October 20, 12:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Thursday, October 21, 7:30 am''

Draw 11

''Thursday, October 21, 3:00 pm''

Draw 13

''Friday, October 22, 7:30 am''

Draw 15

''Friday, October 22, 3:00 pm''

Draw 17

''Saturday, October 23, 8:00 am''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, October 23, 4:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, October 23, 8:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, October 24, 12:00 pm''

Notes

References

External links

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