Santa Rosa, Philippines, November 6, 2024 – The 2024 Asian Senior Seaside Volleyball Championships obtained off to an exhilarating begin with the opening day of predominant draw motion at Nuvali Sand Courts offering dramatic upsets, unbelievable comebacks and all-round drama, as Aussies showcased their skills to rule the roost.
Prime 3 seeds within the males’s occasion, all of them from Australia, sealed Day 1 victories, with high seeds, present world No.19 and the 2024 Mollymook Futures champions Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher demolishing Chinese language Music Jinyang/Zhang Tai 21-16, 21-18 in Pool A.
Second seeds Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert, joint world No.19 and winners on the 2023 Jurmala Problem, confronted a frightening process in beating Iranian qualifiers Salemiinjehboroun Bahman/Abolhassan Khakizadeh, who picked up silver on the 2021 version in Phuket, Thailand, 21-18, 26-24 in Pool B.
Third seeds D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse, silver medallists on the AVC Seaside Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei, disposed of Filipinos Francisco Larry John/Rancel Varga 21-11, 21-16 in Pool C.
One other Australian tandem, 14th seeds Joshua Howat/Luke Ryan, additionally registered their first win following their distinctive 21-18, 21-15 overcome Japan’s Takahashi Takumi/Ikeda Jumpei in Pool D.
Two robust contenders suffered a Day 1 setback, with Thailand’s fourth seeds Pithak Tipjan/Poravid Taovato and Chinese language fifth seeds Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang happening to their respective opponents in hard-fought three-set battles.
Contesting Pool D, Pithak/Poravid, bronze medallists on the earlier version in Fuzhou, China and champions on the AVC Seaside Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei early this 12 months, clinched the closely-contested first set 21-19 of their powerful match towards Dmitriy Yakovlev/Sergey Bogatu earlier than happening within the subsequent two units 19-21, 12-15 to the Kazakh qualifiers.
Chinese language veterans Wu/Ha had already captured many titles in worldwide tournaments to their title together with three consecutive gold medals on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Futures in 2023 which comprised Sohar in Oman, Mount Maunganui in New Zealand and Coolangatta Futures in Australia.
Nevertheless, it appeared that luck was not on their aspect with the Wednesday’s sport towards Mazin Alhashmi/Hood Al Jalaboubi. Dropping the primary set 19-21, Wu/Ha fought again onerous to take the second set 21-17, however couldn’t preserve their poise and misplaced the tie-breaker 8-15 to finally go down in three-setter in Pool E.
As Pithak/Poravid succumbed to their first loss on Wednesday, the opposite three Thai pairings made blistering begins, with Surin Jongklang/Kittituch Khomkham powering previous Kiwis Juraj Krajci/John McManaway 21-17, 21-16 in Pool B.
In Pool F, Thailand’s Netitorn Muneekul/Wachirawit Muadpha pulled off 21-18, 21-16 win towards Japanese Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa.
Dunwinit Kaewsai/Banlue Nakprakhong struggled to beat Japan’s Kai Kurokawa/Ryuichi Adachi in three-setter 21-12, 18-21, 15-12.
Within the girls’s occasion, Chinese language high seeds Wang Jingzhe/Paris Olympian Xia Xinyi claimed two consecutive wins in Pool A on Wednesday. They made a powerful begin with comfy 21-14, 21-10 win towards Indonesians Kaize Josephine Selvina Anasthasya/Melinda Novita Sari Devi of their opening match.
The Chinese language pairing repeated the success with one other straightforward win, 21-11, 21-16, towards Australians Tara Phillips/Kayla Mears, who earlier beat Kazakhstan’s Laura Kabulbekova/Nadezhda Ivanchenko 21-12, 21-13 of their first match.
Australian second seeds Jana Milutinovic/Stefanie Fejes, the consecutive two-time Coolangatta Futures winners and champions on the Mollymook Futures, additionally did likewise to assert two wins in a row on Day 1, beating Japanese Kana Motomura/Nayu Motomura 21-10, 21-13 in Pool B within the Wednesday morning.
Later within the afternoon, the Australian duo got here up with excellent efficiency to close out Thailand’s Patcharaporn Seehawong/Samitta Simarongnam 23-21, 21-15.
Thailand’s third seeds Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert additionally proved that they’re a powerful group to be reckoned with on this double-gender competitors. They first noticed off Aussies Alisha Stevens/Cameron Zajer 21-16, 21-16 in Pool C and later beat Japanese Riko Tsujimura/Takemi Nishibori 22-20, 21-18.
Chinese language Xue Chen, who teamed up with Xia Xinyi to seize the 2023 title on house soil in Fuzhou, however switched her associate this time to group up with Zeng Jinjin as fourth seeds, had a outstanding Day 1 with two easy wins.
The Chinese language duo first thrashed Japanese Ren Matsumoto/Non Matsumoto 21-14, 21-11 within the morning’s Pool D encounter to later sweep Thailand’s Salinda Mungkhon/Somruedee Koedkaew 21-11, 21-13 within the afternoon session.
Additionally successful two consecutive matches on Wednesday included Australians Jasmine Fleming/Elizabeth Alchin in Pool E, Chinese language Yan Xu/Zhou Mi in Pool C, Indonesians Desi Ratnasari/Nur Sari Atika in Pool B and Japanese Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama in Pool F.
The pool round-robin preliminaries proceed on Thursday in each males’s and girls’s occasions. On the finish of the preliminaries, high 3 groups in every pool will safe their locations in spherical of 18. Spherical of 16 will happen on Friday, adopted by the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
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