Hosts China by means of to each males’s and girls’s finals
Bangkok, Thailand, June 22, 2024 – The action-packed final day of the AVC Continental Cup Finals at Ningbo Banbianshan Seashore Volleyball Middle in Ningbo, Xiangshan guarantees equally intense motion as China and Australia arrange males’s last and China face off in opposition to Japan in girls’ showdown to struggle for the lone Paris 2024 berth on provide in every gender.
Within the Sunday’s showdown, hosts China, demolishing Iran 2-0 within the males’s semifinals, will subsequent tackle Australia, which powered previous Indonesia 2-0 within the different semifinal conflict, whereas China surprised New Zealand within the Golden Match to go up in opposition to Japan after their 2-0 rout of Thailand within the semifinal conflict.
Within the males’s semifinals on Saturday, China’s veterans Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang, who carried out brilliantly within the 2023 season to win a number of titles together with Seashore Professional Tour Futures Wenzhou Cangnan, AVC Seashore Tour Samila Open, Seashore Professional Tour Futures Coolangatta in Australia and Seashore Professional Tour Futures Mt Maunganui Seashore in New Zealand, drew the primary blood for China as they cruised to a 2-0 (21-18, 21-15) victory in opposition to Iranians Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab, winners at this 12 months’s Nuvali Open in Philippines.
Wang Yanwei/Li Jie, who claimed gold on the 2023 Seashore Professional Tour Futures Qidong to their identify, didn’t let teammates and residential followers down to tug off distinctive 2-0 (23-21, 21-17) win in opposition to one other Iranian pair of Abolhamed Mirzaali/Sina Shoukati Shekarsaraei for the China’s eventual 2-0 win.
Nevertheless, a frightening process awaits China within the Sunday’s showdown as they are going to subsequent problem powerhouses Australia to struggle for the Paris 2024 slot on provide within the males’s occasion.
Mark Nicolaidis and the 1.99cm-tall Izac Carracher, who in 2022 burst onto the worldwide scene on the Gold Coast Seashore Professional Tour Futures occasion in April, successful gold of their first Worldwide occasion as a pair and a outstanding ninth place within the 2022 World Championships in Rome, handed Australia the 1-0 lead following their hard-fought 2-0 (22-20, 21-19) win in opposition to Indonesians Bintang Akbar/Sofyan Rachman Efendi.
One other Australian duo, Jack Pearse/Paul Burnett, who captured gold at 2023 Seashore Professional Tour Futures Geelong on residence soil and this 12 months’s AVC Seashore Tour twenty third Samila Open, struggled to beat Indonesians Yosi Firnanda/Danangsyah Pribadi 2-1 (21-15, 21-23, 15-8).
In the meantime, the ladies’s showdown sees Japan pitted in opposition to hosts China to vie for the Paris 2024 berth up for grabs.
On Saturday, China misplaced the primary match to New Zealand when Wang Jingzhe/Dong Jie went down 0-2 (18-21, 18-21) to 2022 Asian champions and consecutive two-time Mount Maunganui winners Alice Zeimann/Shaunna Polley.
Nevertheless, the host aspect bounced again to degree it at 1-1 when Cao Shuting/Zhu Lingdi downed Olivia MacDonald/Danielle Quigley in comfy two-setter 21-11, 21-13.
Within the Gold Match to determine the eventual winners, Chinese language Cao Shuting teamed up with Dong Jie, surviving an enormous scare from Zaimann/Polley to beat the Kiwis in hard-fought three-set thriller 23-21, 22-24, 15-13 for the China’s 2-1 victory in opposition to New Zealand.
China will subsequent tackle Japan within the girls’s showdown.
Contesting the semifinals in opposition to Thailand on Saturday, Japan took the primary win when Akiko Hasegawa/Miki Ishii surprised Taravadee Naraphornrapat/Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, gold medallists on the 2021 Asian Championship and silver medallists on the 2023 version, with a comeback 2-1 (18-21, 21-19, 15-13) win in a hotly-contested encounter.
Teammates Suzuka Hashimoto/Reika Murakami made it 2-0 for Japan after they managed a 2-0 (21-7, 21-6) shutout of Charanrutwadee Patcharamainaruebhorn/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert, utterly dashing Thai hopes within the AVC Continental Cup Finals.
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