LINDSEY Greechan flirted with defeat in the quarter finals of the World Champion of Champions in Aberdeen yesterday, but sneaked home on a sudden death extra end, and clinched a place in this morning’s semi finals.

The British champion, pictured, was set back on her heels when her 69-year-old opponent Jennie den Beer, from South Africa, found her line and length from the start, and opened up an 11-2 lead after six ends. But the story changed in the second set, after Greechan lengthened the jack, and took over the reins, picking up a single and a treble on the opening ends, and the match headed inexorably towards a tiebreak.

The wily South African, who won a world championship gold medal in 1996, and an Atlantic gold medal in 1997, drew first blood in the best-of-three-ends tiebreak, when Greechan pushed an enemy bowl in for shot. Greechan responded with a double on the second end to take the lead, but den Beer levelled matters with a single on the third end, and an extra end was required to determine who would go through to the semi finals.