Santa Rosa, Philippines, November 7, 2024 – All Australian groups superior to Spherical of 16 of the action-packed Day 2 of the 2024 Asian Senior Seashore Volleyball Championships at Nuvali Sand Courts on Thursday, as Thailand’s fourth seeds Pithak Tipjan/Poravid Taovato and Vanuatu’s ninth seeds Sherysyn Toko/Majabelle Lawac bowed out of the double-gender competitors.
The pool round-robin preliminaries of males’s and girls’s occasions got here to a detailed on Thursday, with solely prime three groups from every pool securing their locations in Spherical of 18 and Spherical of 16.
Within the males’s competitors, Iran’s twelfth seeds Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab, Australia’s second seeds Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert, Australia’s third seeds D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse, Indonesia’s eighth seeds Bintang Akbar/Efendi Sofyan Rachman and Thailand’s seventh seeds Netitorn Muneekul/Wachirawit Muadpha made a clear sweep with three matches in a row to prime Pool A, Pool B, Pool C, Pool E and Pool F respectively. Pool D was dominated by Australia’s sixteenth seeds Joshua Howat/Luke Ryan, who claimed two wins towards one loss.
Amongst those that didn’t make the lower for Spherical of 18 had been Thailand’s fourth seeds Pithak Tipjan/Poravid Taovato, who picked up bronze medal on the earlier version final 12 months in Fuzhou, China and gold medallists on the AVC Seashore Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei early this 12 months.
Pithak and Poravid misplaced all matches in Pool D. After taking place 1-2 to Kazakhstan’s qualifiers Dmitriy Yakovlev/Sergey Bogatu on Wednesday, the Thai duo succumbed to 2 losses in a row on Thursday. They misplaced 21-23, 14-21 to Australians Joshua Howat/Luke Ryan.
The Thais confronted the same destiny within the day’s second encounter towards Takahashi Takumi/Ikeda Jumpei, taking place 18-21, 17-21 to the Japanese tandem to ultimately crash out of the competitors.
Australia’s prime seeds and 2024 Mollymook Futures champions Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher, recent from 2-0 demolition of China’s Track Jinyang/Zhang Tai on Wednesday, had blended fortunes in Pool A on Thursday, beating Japanese Malki Nassim/Kosuke Fukushima 21-16, 16-21, 15-6 within the day’s first match.
The Australian duo, nevertheless, misplaced 22-24, 18-21 in a well-fought battle towards Iranians Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab of their second encounter.
In Pool B, Aussies D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse, who demolished Iranian qualifiers Salemiinjehboroun Bahman/Khakizadeh Abolhassan 2-0 on Wednesday, remained in distinctive kind to grab each matches on Thursday, shutting out Thailand’s Surin Jongklang/Kittituch Khomkham 21-17, 21-19.
The Aussies later disregarded Kiwis Juraj Krajci/John McManaway 21-16, 21-17 to finish their first spherical marketing campaign with out shedding a set to their respective opponents.
Thailand’s Netitorn Muneekul/Wachirawit Muadpha additionally made their mark within the preliminaries to complete unbeaten with out dropping a set in Pool F. After 2-0 victory towards Japanese Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa on Wednesday, the Thai pairing continued their outstanding run on Thursday to beat Kiwis Alani Nicklin/Thomas Hartles 21-19, 23-21 and acquired a walkover of their second match as a result of their opponents from hosts Philippines, Abdilla Alnakran/James Buytrago, sustained an harm.
In-form Akbar Bintang/Efendi Sofyan Rachman had been additionally unstoppable in Pool E. The Indonesian duo powered previous Iranians GhalehNovi AmirAli/AkbarzadehKashani Habib 2-0 on Wednesday and proved nicely they’re a powerful staff to be reckoned with within the championships as they defeated Omanis Mazin Alhashmi/Al Jalaboubi Hood 21-17, 21-17.
The Indonesians later pulled off a shocking comeback 2-1 (15-21, 21-19, 15-8) victory towards Chinese language veterans Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang, who claimed three consecutive gold medals on the Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour Futures in 2023 comprising Sohar in Oman, Mount Maunganui in New Zealand and Coolangatta Futures in Australia.
Within the males’s Spherical of 18 on Friday, Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa will battle it out with Malki Nassim/Kosuke Fukushima within the all-Japanese affair, with Thailand’s Surin Jongklang/Kittituch Khomkham going up towards Iranians GhalehNovi AmirAli/AkbarzadehKashani Habib.
In the meantime, the ladies’s occasion noticed Vanuatu’s Sherysyn Toko/Majabelle Lawac, who received the Division One Closing of the Australia Seashore Volleyball Tour in 2023, change into the primary staff with highest seeding to bid farewell to the championship in Philippines.
Event ninth seeds Toko/Lawac misplaced 1-2 of their opening match towards Thailand’s Salinda Mungkhon/Somruedee Koedkaew in Pool D on Wednesday. The Vanuatu’s duo tried laborious to make a comeback on Thursday, however nonetheless discovered it an unimaginable mission as they had been simply overwhelmed 8-21, 14-21 by Japanese Ren Matsumoto/Non Matsumoto and misplaced one other snug match, 10-21, 17-21, to China’s fourth seeds Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin.
China’s prime seeds Wang Jingzhe/Xia Xinyi, Australia’s second seeds Jana Milutinovic/Stefanie Fejes, Thailand’s Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert, China’s fourth seeds Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin and Japan’s seventh seeds Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama captured the highest spot in respective Pool A, Pool B, Pool C, Pool D and Pool F, all of them with out dropping a single set. Australia’s eighth seeds Jasmine Fleming/Elizabeth Alchin topped Pool E with two wins towards one loss.
On Friday, Japan’s Kana Motomura/Nayu Motomura will tackle Filipinas Eslapor Genesa Jane/Orillaneda Mary Klymince and Kazakhstan’s Laura Kabulbekova/Nadezhda Ivanchenko will combat it out towards Thailand’s Salinda Mungkhon/Somruedee Koedkaew in Spherical of 18.
The opposite highlights in ladies’s Spherical of 16 on Friday may be anticipated from much-anticipated matches between Alisha Stevens/Cameron Zajer and Jasmine Fleming/Elizabeth Alchin within the all-Australians battle, Thailand’s Tanarattha Udomchavee/Rumpaipruet Numwong towards China’s Yan Xu/Zhou Mingli, China’s Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin towards Philippines’ Progella Khylem Harl/Pagara Sofiah Shanine and Indonesia’s Desi Ratnassari/Nur Sari Atika towards Japan’s Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama.
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