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TEAMS READY FOR TOUGH MAIN DRAW ROUND AT ACTION-PACKED 2024 ASIAN SENIOR BEACH VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PHILIPPINES

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Santa Rosa, Philippines, November 5, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s hopefuls Dmitriy Yakovlev/Sergey Bogatu, Iranians Bahman Salemiinjehboroun/Abolhassan Khakizadeh and Thailand’s Tanarattha Udomchavee/Rumpaipruet Numwong are amongst these certified for the primary draw of the 2024 Asian Senior Seashore Volleyball Championships, which get underway Wednesday at Nuvali Sand Courts right here.

TEAMS READY FOR TOUGH MAIN DRAW ROUND AT ACTION-PACKED 2024 ASIAN SENIOR BEACH VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PHILIPPINES

Within the males’s qualification event, Kazakhs Yakovlev/Bogatu, who claimed their first podium end on the World Seashore Professional Tour collectively in 2019 once they completed third on the occasion in Satun, Thailand, demolished compatriots Mohammad Abdulmajid/Klim Ryukhov 21-18, 21-19 on Tuesday.

Salemi B/Abolhassan, who picked up silver on the 2021 version after taking place to Aussies Chris McHugh/Paul Burnett within the showdown in Phuket, Thailand, proved too sturdy for Edwin Tolentino/Ronniel Rosales to beat the Filipinos in a completely lopsided battle 21-8, 21-10 in 27 minutes within the first qualifying match.

The Iranians remained unstoppable within the second match in opposition to Al-Jalbubi Nouh/Alshereiqi Haitham, defeating the Omanis 21-13, 21-12.

Additionally advancing to the Wednesday’s principal draw comprised Chinese language Tune Jinyang/Zhang Tai and Japanese Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Dylan Hiroki Kurokawa.

Tune/Zhang swept Vietnamese Cao Nhat Minh/Tran Sinh Phan 21-11, 21-18 within the first qualifying match, however the Chinese language duo confronted a stiff problem within the second match in opposition to Yosi Fimanda/Septiano Ade Dimas to beat the Indonesians 21-17, 26-24.

Hasegawa/Dylan beat Vietnamese Nguyen Thanh Sang/Nguyen Hoang Lengthy 21-8, 21-10 within the second qualifying match to safe a spot in the primary draw.

Within the ladies’s qualification event on Tuesday, Thailand’s Tanarattha/Rumpaiprute, each of them performed within the gold medal-winning Thailand staff on the 2019, 2021 and 2023 Southeast Asian Video games, eradicated Singaporeans Dipoditiro Francesca Naila/Lee Xin En Valerie 21-10, 21-10 of their first qualifying match to advance to the Wednesday’s principal draw.

Additionally reserving their berths in the primary draw comprised Japanese Kana Motomura/Nayu Motomura, who defeated Singaporeans Chong Eliza/Ang Hui Ying 21-15, 21-14 and Indonesians Kaize Josephine Selvina Anasthasya/Melinda Novita Sari Devi, who struggled to beat Filipinas Alexa Polidario/Jenny Gaviola 23-21, 21-15. One other Thai tandem, Salinda Mungkhon/Somruedee Koedkaew, superior to the primary draw with out sweating. 

With 4 groups apiece making the minimize for the lads’s and ladies’s principal draw, the Normal Technical Assembly of the 2024 Asian Senior Seashore Volleyball Championships was held on Tuesday on the Velvet Assembly Room contained in the Seda Lodge Nuvali to substantiate that each one is ready for the primary draw from November 6 to 10.

Philippine Nationwide Volleyball Federation Secretary Normal Mr Donaldo Caringal presided over the assembly and delivered a welcome speech to Technical Delegate Mr Kritsada Panaseri from Thailand, Referee Delegate Mr Wang Lei Jun from China, Ms Nattalida Sumdangdech from AVC Seashore Volleyball Division and all taking part groups from Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Oman, Hong Kong China, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and hosts Philippines.

Groups have been break up into six swimming pools (Swimming pools A, B, C, D, E and F) of 4 groups apiece to contest the pool round-robin preliminaries. High 3 groups on the finish of the preliminaries will subsequent safe their locations in spherical of 18 and spherical of 16.

Xia Xinyi/Xue Chen, reigning champions and Paris Olympians, returned to defend their crown achieved earlier than a big crowd of dwelling followers in Fuzhou within the 2023 version. Nevertheless, the Chinese language duo switched their companions this time, with Xia teaming up with Wang Jingzhe as high seeds and Xue partnering Zeng Jinjin as fourth seeds.

Different sturdy contenders within the ladies’s occasion included Australian second seeds Jana Milutinovic/Stefanie Fejes, Thailand’s third seeds Taravadee Naraphonrapat/Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert, New Zealand’s fifth seeds Shaunna Polley/Olivia MacDonald, Australia’s eighth seeds Jasmine Fleming/Elizabeth Alchin and tenth seeds Sherysyn Toko/Majabelle Lawac from Vanuatu, who received the ladies’s Division One Ultimate of the Australia Seashore Volleyball Tour in 2023.

Molutinovic/Fejes defended their Coolangatta crown from 2023 and repeated their success on the 2024 version of the Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour Futures occasion, making it three podiums in a row because the begin of the season after additionally successful a Mollymook Futures gold and a Mount Maunganui Futures silver, whereas Thailand’s Taravadee Naraphonrapat received silver medal on the 2023 Asian Championship in Fuzhou with teammate Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, however switched her associate this time to staff up with Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert.

Within the males’s occasion, Australia’s second seeds Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert, who received their first Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour within the Jurmala Problem in 2023, proved to be the strongest to beat. Their present world rating is No.19, the second finest rating in Asia (Qatar’s Cherif/Ahmed is No.10).

The Aussies first competed collectively in 2022 making podium appearances a complete of six instances at Futures, nationwide or continental tournaments. Within the following season, they received the Jurmala Problem earlier than qualifying for spherical 16 on the 2023 World Championships and incomes a spot on this planet’s high 10.

The strongest problem could be anticipated from compatriots Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher, high seeds and joint world No.19. The Australian pairing captured the AVC Seashore Tour Penghu Open in Chinese language Taipei in 2023 and in addition received the 2024’s first Seashore Professional Tour occasion at Mollymook Futures.

One other Australian pairing and third seeds, D’Artagnan Potts/Jack Pearse, in addition to Thailand’s fourth seeds Pithak Tipjan/Poravid Taovato, and Chinese language fifth seeds Wu Jiaxin/Ha Likejiang have additionally proved they could possibly be a thorn within the flesh of their opponents.

Potts/Pearse claimed silver at this 12 months’s AVC Seashore Tour Taoyuan Open in Chinese language Taipei, whereas Pithak/Poravid emerged triumphant on the aforementioned Taoyuan Open and bronze medallists on the 2023 Asian Championship in Fuzhou, and Wu/Ha captured many worldwide tournaments together with three consecutive gold medals on the Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour in 2023 (Sohar, Mount Maunganui and Coolangatta Futures).

The 2024 Asian Senior Seashore Volleyball Championships on the Nuvali Sand Courts kick off the primary draw competitors on Wednesday from 08.00am native time, with groups combating in continuous motion to vie for higher positions within the double-gender occasion and AVC factors.

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