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{{short description|Grand Slam of Curling event}}
{{Infobox curling |
Name =2009 Grey Power <br> World Cup of Curling |
Logo = Gpwcc09.gif|
Size = 200|
Host city =[[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]] |
Arena = [[Paramount Fine Foods Centre|Hershey Centre]] |
Dates = October 21–25 |
Winner = {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Team Howard''' | 
Curling club = [[Coldwater and District Curling Club|Coldwater & District CC]], <br> [[Coldwater, Ontario]] | 
Skip = [[Glenn Howard]]  | 
Third = [[Richard Hart (curler)|Richard Hart]] | 
Second = [[Brent Laing]] | 
Lead =  [[Craig Savill]]  | 
Finalist = {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Kevin Koe|Team Koe]] | 
Attendance = 41,701 | 
}}

The '''2009 Grey Power [[World Cup of Curling]]''' was held October 21–25 at the [[Paramount Fine Foods Centre|Hershey Centre]] in [[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]].

The 2009 World Cup was the first [[Grand Slam (curling)|Grand Slam]] event of the [[2009-10 curling season]]. It was the first Grand Slam to be held in the [[Greater Toronto Area]].

This event is normally known as the '''Masters of Curling''', but in 2009 it was changed to the '''World Cup of Curling''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717141217/http://www.worldcurlingtour.com/events.php?view=News&eventid=2186&id=7579]. The 2009 event had a majority of its teams from outside of Canada. The event featured one team from every country that sent a team to the men's Olympic event, except Canada, which had five teams (the four teams that had already qualified for the [[2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials]] plus defending Olympic champions, team [[Brad Gushue]].

The total purse of the event was $100,000, with the Howard rink winning $24,000 of that.

For the third event in a row, Howard faced off against Koe in the final. Howard defended his previous three titles by winning his fourth straight event, and his eighth Grand Slam title. Koe has yet to win a title, having now lost six Grand Slam finals.

==Three Nations Cup==
In addition to the World Cup, which is a men's event, a women's "Three Nations Cup" was held. This small event featured teams [[Shannon Kleibrink]] and [[Stefanie Lawton]] of Canada as well as [[Wang Bingyu]] of China and [[Eve Muirhead]] of Great Britain. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717141223/http://www.worldcurlingtour.com/events.php?view=News&eventid=2186&id=7582] Many of the top women's teams however could not participate, as they were playing in the [[2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic]]. The event was a round robin event, which was won by Great Britain's Eve Muirhead.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width="100px"|Team
!width="25px"|W
!width="25px"|L
!width="25px"|PF
!width="25px"|PA
|-  
|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Eve Muirhead|Muirhead]]|| 3 || 1 || 25 || 14
|- 
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Stefanie Lawton|Lawton]] || 2 || 2 || 23 || 23
|- 
|{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Bingyu|Wang]] || 2 || 2 || 20 || 25 
|-  
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Shannon Kleibrink|Kleibrink]] || 1 || 3 || 20 || 36
|}

==World Cup teams==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Skip
!Third
!Second
!Lead
!Home city
|-
|[[Thomas Dufour]] || [[Tony Angiboust]] || [[Richard Ducroz]] || [[Jan Henri Ducroz]] || {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Chamonix]]
|-
|[[Niklas Edin]] || [[Sebastian Kraupp]] || [[Fredrik Lindberg]] || [[Viktor Kjäll]] || {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Karlstad]]
|-
| [[David Nedohin]] (fourth) || [[Randy Ferbey]] (skip) || [[Scott Pfeifer]] || [[Marcel Rocque]] || {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Edmonton]]
|-
|[[Brad Gushue]] || [[Mark Nichols (curler)|Mark Nichols]] || [[Ryan Fry]] || [[Jamie Korab]] || {{flagicon|CAN}} [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]]
|-
|[[Glenn Howard]] || [[Richard Hart (curler)|Richard Hart]] || [[Brent Laing]] || [[Craig Savill]] || {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Coldwater, Ontario|Coldwater]]
|-
|[[Andy Kapp]] || [[Andreas Lang]] || [[Holger Höhne]] || [[Andreas Kempf]] || {{flagicon|GER}} [[Füssen]]
|-
|[[Kevin Koe]] || [[Blake MacDonald]] || [[Carter Rycroft]] || [[Nolan Thiessen]] || {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Edmonton]]
|-
|[[Wang Fengchun]] (fourth) || [[Liu Rui (curler)|Liu Rui]] (skip) || [[Xu Xiaoming]] || [[Li Hongchen]] || {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Harbin]]
|-
|[[Kevin Martin (curler)|Kevin Martin]] || [[John Morris (curler)|John Morris]] || [[Marc Kennedy]] || [[Ben Hebert]] || {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Edmonton]]
|-
|[[David Murdoch]] || [[Ewan MacDonald]] || [[Peter Smith (curler)|Peter Smith]] || [[Euan Byers]] || {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Lockerbie]]
|-
|[[Johnny Frederiksen]] (fourth) || [[Ulrik Schmidt]] (skip) || [[Bo Jensen]] || [[Lars Vilandt]] || {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Copenhagen]]
|-
|[[John Shuster]] || [[Jason Smith (curler)|Jason Smith]] || [[Jeff Isaacson]] || [[John Benton (curler)|John Benton]] || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Duluth, Minnesota|Duluth]]
|-
|[[Ralph Stöckli]] || [[Jan Hauser]] || [[Simon Strübin]] || [[Markus Eggler]] || {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Basel]]
|-
|[[Thomas Ulsrud]] || [[Torger Nergård]] || [[Christoffer Svae]] || [[Havard Vad Petersson]] || {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Oslo]]
|}

==Draw==
===Pool A===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width="100px"|Team
!width="25px"|W
!width="25px"|L
!width="25px"|PF
!width="25px"|PA
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Kevin Martin (curler)|Martin]] || 6 || 0 || 43 || 20
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|NOR}} [[Thomas Ulsrud|Ulsrud]] || 4 || 2 || 33 || 22 
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Kevin Koe|Koe]] || 4 || 2 || 38 || 35
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[Niklas Edin|Edin]] || 4 || 2 || 29 || 33 
|-
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Randy Ferbey|Ferbey]] || 2 || 4 || 26 || 34
|-
|{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wang Fengchun|Wang]] || 1 || 5 || 24 || 32 
|-
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Thomas Dufour|Dufour]] || 0 || 6 || 22 || 38
|}

'''Scores:'''
*Martin 9-1 Edin 
*Ferbey 4-2 Wang
*Koe 7-4 Dufour
*Martin 6-3 Dufour
*Ulsrud 8-2 Edin
*Koe 6-4 Ulsrud 
*Edin 8-3 Ferbey  
*Martin 8-4 Wang
*Wang 8-5 Dufour
*Koe 7-6 Ferbey (9)
*Edin 5-3 Dufour
*Martin 5-4 Ulsrud (9)
*Koe 6-4 Wang
*Ulsrud 7-4 Ferbey
*Martin 9-5 Koe
*Ferbey 6-4 Dufour
*Edin 5-4 Wang (9)
*Ulsrud 6-3 Dufour
*Martin 6-3 Ferbey 
*Ulsrud 4-2 Wang
*Edin 8-6 Koe

===Pool B===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width="100px"|Team
!width="25px"|W
!width="25px"|L
!width="25px"|PF
!width="25px"|PA
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Glenn Howard|Howard]] || 6 || 0 || 44 || 22
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|DEN}} [[Ulrik Schmidt|Schmidt]] || 4 || 2 || 34 || 34
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[Andy Kapp|Kapp]] || 3 || 3 || 30 || 23
|-  bgcolor="#ffffcc"
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Brad Gushue|Gushue]] || 3 || 3 || 26 || 26
|-
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[John Shuster|Shuster]] || 2 || 4 || 21 || 31
|-
|{{flagicon|SUI}} [[Ralph Stöckli|Stöckli]] || 2 || 4 || 31 || 32
|-
|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[David Murdoch|Murdoch]] || 1 || 5 || 20 || 38 
|}

'''Scores:'''
*Howard 9-5 Kapp
*Shuster 4-3 Gushue
*Kapp 7–1 Gushue
*Stöckli 8-4 Murdoch
*Howard 9-3 Schmidt
*Kapp 8–0 Shuster
*Gushue 6-5 Stöckli (9)
*Schmidt 5-3 Shuster
*Howard 8-3 Murdoch
*Howard 4-1 Gushue
*Stöckli 4-1 Kapp
*Schmidt 8-3 Murdoch
*Schmidt 6-5 Kapp (9)
*Shuster 5-4 Stöckli 
*Gushue 6-2 Murdoch
*Howard 6-5 Shuster (9)
*Howard 8-5 Stöckli
*Kapp 4–3 Murdoch
*Gushue 9-4 Schmidt
*Schmidt 8-5 Stöckli
*Murdoch 5-4 Shuster

===Playoffs===
{{8TeamBracket-NoSeeds
| RD1= Quarterfinals
| RD2= Semifinals
| RD3= Finals

| RD1-team1= {{flagicon|CAN}} Martin
| RD1-score1=  2
| RD1-team2= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Gushue''' 
| RD1-score2=  '''8'''

| RD1-team3= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Koe'''
| RD1-score3= '''7'''
| RD1-team4= {{flagicon|SWE}} Edin 
| RD1-score4= 2

| RD1-team5= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Howard'''
| RD1-score5= '''8'''
| RD1-team6= {{flagicon|GER}} Kapp
| RD1-score6= 5

| RD1-team7= {{flagicon|NOR}} '''Ulsrud'''
| RD1-score7= '''8'''
| RD1-team8= {{flagicon|DEN}} Schmidt 
| RD1-score8= 2

| RD2-team1= {{flagicon|CAN}} Gushue
| RD2-score1= 4
| RD2-team2= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Koe'''
| RD2-score2= '''6'''

| RD2-team3= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Howard'''
| RD2-score3= '''5'''
| RD2-team4= {{flagicon|NOR}} Ulsrud 
| RD2-score4=  4

| RD3-team1= {{flagicon|CAN}} Koe
| RD3-score1=  4
| RD3-team2= {{flagicon|CAN}} '''Howard'''
| RD3-score2= '''6'''
}}

==External links==
*[http://www.grandslamofcurling.com/world-cup/ Event website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717141229/http://www.worldcurlingtour.com/events.php?task=Event&eventid=2186 World Curling Tour event site]

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