Tianjin, China, July 14, 2024 – Iran’s Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab captured their second AVC Seaside Tour gold this 12 months, as China’s Yan Xu/Zhou Mingli had a revenge match towards Australians Stefanie Fejes/Georgia Johnson to reign supreme within the ladies’s occasion of the AVC Seaside Tour Tianjin Open at Dongjiang Gulf Seaside, Binhai right here on Sunday.
Iran’s Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab declare males’s gold medal
Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab, who had already gained the AVC Seaside Tour Nuvali Open in Metropolis of Santa Rosa in Philippines early this April to their title, surprised Thailand’s prime seeds Pithak Thipjan/Poravid Taovato 2-0 (22-20, 21-18) to be topped males’s champions. For the Iranian duo, it was the repeated feat over the Thai counterparts that they had already crushed within the remaining of the Nuvali Open.
Iran’s Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab in remaining match towards Thailand’s Pithak/Poravid
The Iranian duo had already made their mark in worldwide seaside volleyball competitions, serving to their Nationwide Federation win the AVC Continental Cup – Central Zone final September aside from choosing up bronze on the final August’s BPT Futures Wenzhou Cangan in China and fourth place on the final 12 months’s Hangzhou Asian Video games, making them the primary Iranian pair ever to advance to the Asian Video games semifinals.
Iran and two Thai pairs full males’s podium
For the victory with outstanding unbeaten document on the Tianjin Open, Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab claimed gold medal plus US$2,500 money prize and added one other 320 factors to their AVC Seaside Volleyball rating document, whereas Thailand’s Pithak/Poravid took house silver medal, US$2,000 money prize and 288 AVC rating factors.
Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab prime males’s podium
Within the semifinals earlier, Pourasgari/Aghajanighasab, silver medallists at this 12 months’s twenty third Samila Open in Thailand, beat China’s Wang Yanwei/Liu Chuanyong 2-0 (21-14, 21-18), whereas Pithak/Poravid, who had grabbed their first World Seaside Professional Tour medal in 2022 with a Subic Bay Futures gold in Philippines and fourth place on the 2023 Asian Championship in Fuzhou, China, outperformed fellow Netitorn Muneekul/Wachirawit Muadpha 2-0 (21-18, 21-16).
Thailand’s Pithak/Poravid and Netitorn/Wachirawit make 2-3 end
The bronze-medal match noticed Netitorn/Wachirawit bounce again to beat Wang/Liu of China 2-1 (13-21, 21-18, 16-14) and made Thailand a two-three end in Tianjin.
Chinese language Yan/Zhou topped ladies’s champions at Tianjin Open
In the meantime, Chinese language Yan Xu/Zhou Mingli took the ladies’s crown following their sensational 2-0 (21-18, 21-15) victory towards Australia’s new pair Stefanie Fejes/Georgia Johnson, the champions on the 2024 World Seaside Professional Tour Futures – Krakow in Poland, to whom the Chinese language pair had misplaced 0-2 within the pool play earlier.
Chinese language Yan/Zhou prime ladies’s podium
For his or her nice achievement in Tianjin, Yan/Zhou claimed gold medal plus US$2,500 money prize and 320 AVC rating factors, whereas Aussies Fejes/Johnson took house silver medal, US$2,000 money prize and 288 AVC rating factors.
Chinese language Yan/Zhou in ladies’s remaining match towards Australia’s Fejes/Johnson
Yan and Zhou proved no stranger to seaside volleyball because the 20-year-old Yan and the 19-year-old Zhou have already claimed two World Seaside Professional Tour Futures titles on house soil consisting of the 2023 Futures – Qidong and the 2024 Futures – Wuhan Qingshan.
Australia’s Fejes/Johnson decide up silver
Earlier, the Chinese language duo gained the all-Chinese language semifinal affair after beating Wang Fan/Bai Bing 2-1 (21-19, 17-21, 15-12), whereas Aussies Fejes/Johnson downed Asami Shiba/Saki Maruyama of Japan 2-0 (21-16, 21-11) in 34 minutes within the different semifinal conflict.
Japan’s Shiba/Maruyama declare ladies’s bronze
Shiba/Maruyama needed to be content material with bronze medal following 2-0 (23-21, 21-18) win towards Wang/Bai of China.
All medallists in group photograph with younger volunteers
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