D’ARTAGNAN POTTS & JACK PEARSE REIGN SUPREME ON THEIR ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS DEBUT, AS XIA XINYI & WANG JINGZHE HAND CHINA THE WOMEN’S 12TH TITLE IN SANTA ROSA

November 10, 2024

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Australia and China retained respective males’s and girls’s titles in 2024 Asian Senior Seaside Volleyball Championships

Santa Rosa, Philippines, November 10, 2024 – Australia and China captured back-to-back titles on the 2024 Asian Senior Seaside Volleyball Championships, which got here to a fruitful conclusion at Nuvali Sand Courts within the Metropolis of Santa Rosa on Sunday, with D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse touchdown the lads’s title and Wang Jingzhe/Xia Xinyi topped the ladies’s champions.

D’ARTAGNAN POTTS & JACK PEARSE REIGN SUPREME ON THEIR ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS DEBUT, AS XIA XINYI & WANG JINGZHE HAND CHINA THE WOMEN’S 12TH TITLE IN SANTA ROSA

Within the males’s showdown, third seeds Potts/Pearse pulled off upset 2-0 (21-19, 21-19) win towards compatriots and high seeds Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher, who claimed the 2024 Mollymook Futures title and 2023 AVC Seaside Tour Penghu Open in Chinese language Taipei to their identify.

Potts/Pearse, each on their Asian Championships debut and had solely performed two Asian Tour occasions collectively in the identical crew together with this 12 months’s AVC Seaside Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei, the place they picked up silver medal, didn’t lose a match en path to successful the lads’s title, the Volleyroos’ seventh for the reason that championship inception in 2000 in Yangjiang, China.

Australia had already captured the lads’s title in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.

Within the third-place playoff earlier, Iran’s twelfth seeds Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab, who had already claimed two AVC Seaside Tour occasions this 12 months comprising the Nuvali Open in Philippines and the Tianjin Open in China plus silver medal on the AVC Seaside Tour Samila Open in Thailand in April, demolished China’s fifth seeds Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang 2-0 (21-15, 21-17).

Wu, 29 and Ha, 30, had received many worldwide tournaments together with three consecutive gold medals on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour in 2023 (Sohar, Mount Maunganui and Coolangatta Futures) in addition to silver medal on the Hangzhou Asian Video games in 2022. However this time, the Chinese language duo fell brief and couldn’t make the rostrum.

In the meantime, the ladies’s all-Chinese language remaining affair noticed top-rated Wang Jingzhe/Xia Xinyi energy previous fourth seeds Xue Chen/Zeng Jinjin 2-0 (21-18, 21-19) for the crown.

Wang/Xia had been unbeaten en path to successful their title, dropping just one set (2-1) to compatriots Yan Xu/Zhou Mingli within the quarterfinals.

China had claimed 12 ladies’s titles within the Asian Championships and amongst them had been 4 from Xia Xinyi. Xia took her first Asian Championships title in 2016 along with her accomplice Xue Chen. She claimed her second title in 2020 with new accomplice Wang Fan earlier than switching to accomplice Xue Chen and Wang Jingzhe to bag her third and fourth Asian Championships titles in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

In 2023, Xia Xinyi additionally teamed up with Xue Chen to seize gold medal on the rescheduled Hangzhou Asian Video games, her third Asiad gold in a row (2014, 2018, 2022).

On the 2024 version of the Asian Championships at Nuvali Sand Courts right here, the Chinese language duo switched their companions, with Xia Xinyi partnering Wang Jingzhe, the 27-year-old who managed to win gold at 5 of her six FIVB Seaside Volleyball World Tour in 2019 along with her earlier accomplice Wen Shuhui, and Xue Chen, 35, bronze medallist at 2008 Beijing Olympics and world champion in 2013, teaming up with the 22-year-old Zeng Jinjin, gold medallist on the 2023 Leuven Futures in Belgium.

Within the bronze-medal match, Australia’s second seeds Jana Milutinovic/Stefanie Fejes, champions on the AVC Seaside Tour Nuvali Open within the Metropolis of Santa Rosa right here, posted a 21-15, 21-19 drubbing of seventh seeds Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama, the Japanese duo Milutinovic/Fejes had defeated twice earlier than together with an distinctive 2-0 win within the bronze-medal match on the Samila Open.

With Milutinovic/Fejes claiming bronze medal within the ladies’s occasion, Australia swept an entire assortment of medals within the 2024 Asian Championships together with gold medal from Potts/Pearse and silver medal from Nicolaidis/Carracher.

The awards presentation and shutting ceremony at Nuvali Sand Courts on Sunday afternoon was presided by Philippine Nationwide Volleyball Federation (PNVF) Secretary Normal Mr Donaldo Caringal.

Within the males’s occasion, Australians D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse had been topped champions to obtain the trophy plus gold medals, US$7,500 money prize and 800 AVC collected factors.

Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher, additionally from Australia, completed second to obtain the trophy, silver medals, US$5,500 prize cash and 760 factors.

Coming in third place had been Iranians Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab, introduced with the trophy, bronze medals, US$3,500 money prize and 720 factors.

The ladies’s podium noticed Chinese language Wang Jingzhe/Xia Xinyi reign supreme to take the trophy, gold medals, US$7,500 money prize and 800 AVC collected factors.