Bangkok, Thailand, June 21, 2024 – High seeds China will battle it out with Iran and Australia arrange conflict with Indonesia within the highly-anticipated males’s semifinals, whereas the ladies’s encounters see Japan go up in opposition to Thailand and hosts China problem New Zealand within the 2024 AVC Seaside Volleyball Continental Cup Finals at Ningbo Banbianshan Seaside Volleyball Heart in Ningbo, Xiangshan, China.
The topflight three-day competitors serves because the final Asian qualification which is able to qualify one group (Nationwide Federation) apiece in every gender to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
Within the males’s knock-out quarterfinals on Friday, high seeds China beat Oman 2-0. Veterans Ha Likejiang/Wu Jiaxin, who claimed debut FIVB World Tour one-star occasion in Anapa, Russia in 2018 and clinched gold medal at 2022 AVC Seaside Tour Bandar Abbas Open in Iran, gave the host facet a 1-0 benefit after 2-0 (21-17, 21-17) win in opposition to Haitham Alshereiqi/Ahmed Alhousni. Fellow countrymen Wang Yanwei/Li Jie struggled to beat Hood Al Jalaboubi/Mazin Alhashmi in hard-fought two-setter 21-19, 30-28 at hand China the convincing 2-0 win.
China will subsequent battle it out with Iran, which pulled off one other 2-0 win in opposition to Japan, within the Saturday’s semifinals.
Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajani drew the primary blood for Iran following their dramatic 2-1 (21-18, 13-21, 15-9) win in opposition to Takumi Takahashi/Jumpei Ikeda, whereas Abolhamed Mirzzali/Sina Shoukati Shekarsaraei struggled to beat Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa/Kosuke Fukushima 2-1 (23-21, 21-18) for the Iran’s eventual 2-0 win.
Australia additionally made their mark within the quarterfinals to ship Qatar packing 2-0, with Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carraher, who captured gold on the inaugural Mollymook Australian Seaside Volleyball Tour in 2022, dismissing Abdallah Ibrahim Nassim/Ihab Zaki Mohamed 2-0 (21-14, 21-8) and Jack Pearse/Paul Burnett, who received first Seaside Professional tour Futures occasion collectively final November in Geelong and took the 23th Samila Open in Songkhla, Thailand this 12 months, demolishing Assam Ahmed Mahmoud/Saifeddine Binaziz Elmajid 2-0 (21-11, 21-16).
Within the semifinal conflict on Saturday, Australia will face Indonesia, which narrowly beat New Zealand 2-1. Bintang Akbar/Sofyan Rachman Efendi got here from behind to beat Thomas Reid/John McManaway 2-1 (19-21, 21-18, 15-9) for the Indonesia’s 1-0 lead. Nonetheless, Bradley Fuller/Ben O’Dea gave New Zealand 1-1 after managing a 2-0 (21-11, 21-15) shutout of Yosi Firnanda/Danangsyah Pribadi.
Within the Golden Match to find out the eventual winners, Indonesia’s Bintang/Sofyan survived an enormous scare from Fuller/O’Dea to seize the thrilling 2-1 (21-14, 24-26, 15-11) win.
Within the ladies’s occasion, high seeds China simply defeated Lebanon 2-0 to subsequent face off in opposition to New Zealand within the Saturday’s semifinals.
Wang Jingzhe/Dong Jie beat Cheikho Mirna/Hamzeh Mirvat in a completely one-sided battle 2-0 (21-13, 21-8), whereas Cao Shuting/Zhu Lingdi mercilessly crushed Nour Hamze/Sara Akkari Ismail 2-0 (21-3, 21-5) in one other lopsided affair.
Within the different quarterfinal conflict between New Zealand and Vanuatu on Friday, Kiwis Alice Zeimann/Shaunna Polley, Asian champions in 2022 and consecutive two-time Mount Maunganui winners, overpowered Sherysyn Toko/Majabelle Lawac to guide New Zealand 1-0 and Olivia MacDonald/Danielle Quigley demolished Loti Joe/Linline Matauatu 2-0 (21-15, 21-15) for New Zealand’s clear sweep.
Japan, which downed Indonesia 2-0 within the Friday’s quarterfinals, will subsequent tackle Thailand.
Akiko Hasegawa/Miki Ishii put Japan in entrance 1-0 after 2-0 (21-12, 21-18) rout of Indonesians Nur Sari/Desi Ratnasari, whereas Suzuka Hashimoto/Reika Murakami made it 2-0 for Japan following their 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) win in opposition to Indonesians Bernadette Shella Herdanti/Josephine Selvina Anasthasya Kaize.
Thailand additionally proved a reduce above Kazakhstan to drag off 2-0 win in opposition to them. Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, gold medallists on the 2021 Asian Championship and silver medallists on the 2023 version, trounced Laura Kabulbekova/Nadezhda Ivanchenko 2-0 (21-17, 21-12), whereas Charanrutwadee Patcharamainaruebhorn/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert outperformed Anastassiya Ukolova/Mariya Peressetskaya 2-0 (21-18, 21-10).
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