Taoyuan, Chinese language Taipei, August 22, 2024 – The double-gender “Taichung Financial institution” AVC Seaside Tour Taoyuan Open is ready to happen at Dayuan Seaside Volleyball Courtroom right here from August 23 to 26, with 28 groups together with 15 males’s pairings able to get on the sand to vie for males’s and girls’s titles.
Australia and Thailand fielded three groups apiece within the girls’s occasion. Hosts Chinese language Taipei and Korea despatched two staff every, with one staff apiece represented by Philippines, Macau China and Malaysia. Within the males’s division, Thailand, Australia and Japan fielded three groups every and hosts Chinese language Taipei despatched two groups, whereas Iran, New Zealand, Philippines and Malaysia fielded one staff every.
Main the cost within the males’s occasion are Iran’s Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab, who had already captured two AVC Seaside Tour gold medals this 12 months consisting of the Nuvali Open in Metropolis of Santa Rosa in Philippines early this April and Tianjin Open in July.
Sturdy challenges may be anticipated from Australians Jack Pearse/D’Artagnan Potts, who captured their first Seaside Professional Tour Futures occasion collectively final November in Geelong and captured the title on the twenty third Samila Open in Songkhla, Thailand this 12 months.
Thailand’s prime gamers Pithak Tipjan/Poravid Taovato additionally proved to be one of many robust groups to be reckoned with and the title contenders others can’t underestimate. The Thai duo had captured their first Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour medal within the Philippines in 2022, a Subic Bay Futures gold, and backed it up with silver at their subsequent look on the Tour, on the Coolangatta Futures in March and April. Pithak/Poravid picked up silver medal on the final month’s Tianjin Open.
Within the girls’s facet, all eyes shall be on Australia’s Stefanie Fejes/Georgia Johnson, the champions on the 2024 World Seaside Professional Tour Futures – Krakow in Poland and gold medallists at this 12 months’s Samila Open in Thailand, and their compatriots, Jasmine Fleming/Jana Milutinovic.
Groups shall be divided into 4 swimming pools in each males’s and girls’s occasions and after pool round-robin preliminaries, each staff can have an equal probability to subsequent contest the one elimination.
Forward of the competitors, the Normal Technical Assembly was held on Thursday at Assembly Room, on third flooring of the Monarch Plaza Lodge to lastly affirm the competitors draw, refereeing, medical and different associated points. Mr Kong Chien-Jung, President of Chinese language Taipei Volleyball Affiliation, presided over the assembly and delivered the welcome speech to all individuals.
Additionally in attendance have been Mr Huang Kuo-Kuang, Secretary Normal of Chinese language Taipei Volleyball Affiliation, native organizing committee of Taoyuan Metropolis and all taking part groups.
The staff briefing afterward was collectively carried out by Technical Delegate Mr Tomoki Kimishima from Japan and Referee Delegate Mr Thomas Chang from Hong Kong, China, with the previous reporting on the match protocol, the Guidelines of the Recreation in addition to the competitors format and the pool precept and the latter on the referee points forward of the conduction of the drawing of heaps.
On Friday, the very first day of the four-day occasion, the pool play will begin at 9am native time within the girls’s occasion, whereas the lads’s competitors will happen from 9.50am onwards.
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