Santa Rosa, Philippines, November 8, 2024 – On a day when all Thai gamers sadly crashed out of the 2024 Asian Senior Seaside Volleyball Championships at Nuvali Sand Courts, seven Australian groups together with 4 males’s pairs superior to the highly-anticipated quarterfinals, with prime seeds Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher and Joshua Howat/Luke Ryan combating it out in an all-Australian affair and second seeds Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert difficult Chinese language veterans Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang on Saturday.
Nicolaidis/Carracher, who claimed the 2024 Mollymook Futures title and 2023 AVC Seaside Tour Penghu Open in Chinese language Taipei to their identify, eradicated Thailand’s Netitorn Muneekul/Wachirawit Muadpha 21-9, 21-19 in Spherical of 16 on Friday to subsequent tackle compatriots Howat/Ryan, who toppled Japan’s Kai Kurokawa/Ryuichi Adachi 21-12, 21-11, within the Saturday morning’s quarterfinals.
Second seeds Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert, reigning champions who captured their first Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour within the 2023 Jurmala Problem, additionally secured their quarterfinal berth following their 2-0 (21-12, 21-14) demolition of Japan’s Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa in Spherical of 16. The Aussies will subsequent go up in opposition to fifth seeds Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang.
The highly-experienced Wu/Ha might show one of many strongest pairs to be reckoned with on this double-gender championships, seeing off Thailand’s Dunwinit Kaewsai/Banlue Nakprakhong 21-12, 21-14 in Spherical of 16 on Friday.
The Chinese language duo took silver medal within the 2020 Asian Championships in Udon Thani, Thailand. Additionally they captured the 2023 Wenzhou Cangnan Futures on dwelling soil and three consecutive titles on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Futures on the identical yr comprising Sohar in Oman, Mount Maunganui in New Zealand and Coolangatta Futures in Australia.
After shutting out Japan’s Takahashi Takumi/Ikeda Jumpei 21-17, 21-17 in Spherical of 16, Australia’s third seeds D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse, silver medallists on the AVC Seaside Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei early this yr, will subsequent face off in opposition to Kazakhstan’s qualifiers Dmitriy Yakovlev/Sergey Bogatu within the Saturday’s quarterfinals.
The remaining quarterfinal encounter will see qualifiers Bahman Salemiinjehboroun/Abolhassan Khakizadeh struggle it out with Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab in an all-Iranian battle.
Salemi/Abolhassan superior when their opponents Kiwis Alani Nicklin/Thomas Hartles have been pressured to forfeit their match in Spherical of 16, whereas A. Pourasgari/Aghajani routed compatriots GhalehNovi AmirAli/AkbarzadehKashani Habib 21-14, 23-21 in one other conflict.
In the meantime, three girls’s groups apiece from Australia and China paraded into the Saturday’s quarterfinals.
China’s prime seeds Wang Jingzhe/Xia Xinyi, who disregarded Filipinas Eslapor Genesa Jane/Orillaneda Mary Klymince 21-13, 21-8 in Spherical of 16 on Friday, will problem compatriots and tenth seeds Yan Xu/Zhou Mingli, who superior following the 2-0 (21-15, 21-18) shutout of Thailand’s Tanarattha Udomchavee/Rumpaipruet Numwong, whereas one other Chinese language pair, fourth seeds, Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin, will tackle Australian’s thirteenth seeds Tara Phillips/Kayla Mears.
Of their Spherical of 16 encounters on Friday, Xue/Zeng overpowered Filipinas Progella Khylem Hari/Pagara Sofiah Shanine 21-14, 21-11, whereas Phillips/Mears upset Thailand’s third seeds Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert 21-14, 21-15.
Australia’s second seeds Jana Milutinovic/Stefanie Fejes, who landed consecutive two-time Coolangatta Futures titles and champions on the 2024 Mollymook Futures, will problem Shaunna Polley/Olivia MacDonald within the Saturday’s quarterfinals. In Spherical of 16, the Australian duo crushed Thailand’s Salinda Mungkhon/Somruedee Koedkaew 21-10, 21-12, whereas the embattled Kiwis confronted a stiff problem from Ren Matsumoto/Non Matsumoto to narrowly edge previous the Japanese duo 22-20, 21-18.
Australians Jasmine Fleming/Elizabeth Alchin, who produced a comeback 2-1 (14-21, 21-14, 15-12) win in opposition to compatriots Alisha Stevens/Cameron Zajer in Spherical of 16, will subsequent tackle Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama within the quarterfinals. The Japanese pair noticed off Indonesians Desi Ratnasari/Nur Sari Atika 21-19, 21-6 in one other Spherical of 16 match.
The quarterfinals will start on Saturday at 8.30am native time within the girls’s occasion, whereas the lads’s groups will kick off their quarterfinal marketing campaign from 10.10am. The 4 successful groups in each males’s and ladies’s occasions will subsequent advance to the afternoon’s semifinals.
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