Duos from China, Latvia, Thailand, Japan and Germany make Seashore Professional Tour podiums in China
Triumphant Liepa & Puskundzis (supply: Beachvolleylv)
19-year-old Latvians Toms Liepa & Ernests Puskundzis picked up the lads’s gold on the Qidong Futures cease on the Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour that got here to a conclusion on Sunday in China. One other 19-year-old, Zhou Mingli, and her 20-year-old accomplice Yan Xu delighted the house crowd with the ladies’s trophy.
Thailand’s Dunwinit Kaewsai & Banlue Nakprakhong and Germany’s Niklas Held & Hennes Jorge Nissen took the lads’s silver and bronze, respectively, whereas China’s Jiang Kaiyue & Yu Tong and Japan’s Asami Shiba & Saki Maruyama accomplished an all-Asian girls’s podium.
Fifth-seeded Toms Liepa & Ernests Puskundzis began the event with a loss of their first pool match, however then picked up pace and achieved 5 consecutive victories on the way in which to the gold, dropping solely a set of their 2-1 (21-19, 11-21, 15-12) ultimate towards seventh-seeded Dunwinit Kaewsai & Banlue Nakprakhong. Within the semifinals, the Latvian workforce mastered a 2-0 (21-11, 21-12) win over Tenth-seeded Bence Tari & Akos Veress of Hungary. The Qidong gold was Liepa & Puskundzis’ first on the Seashore Professional Tour and second total medal, after the Nuvali Futures bronze in April.
Liepa & Puskundzis rejoice on high of the rostrum (supply: Beachvolleylv)
Within the different semifinal, Dunwinit & Banlue produced a 2-1 (17-21, 21-19, 15-12) comeback towards Thirteenth-seeded German qualifiers Niklas Held & Hennes Jorge Nissen and secured a podium spot at their Seashore Professional Tour debut as a pair. It was Dunwinit’s second medal, after he earned one other silver on the Subic Bay Futures in 2022. The set they misplaced within the semifinal was the one one the Thai duo dropped within the 4 consecutive matches gained on the way in which to the gold medal sport.
22-year-old Held and 19-year-old Nissen earned their first-ever Tour podium after a 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) sweep of the bronze medal match towards Tari & Veress.
Zhou Mingli & Yan Xu collected their third gold and fourth total medal on the Seashore Professional Tour. All three of the earlier podiums have been additionally earned in entrance of house crowds in China. The highest-seeded duo that additionally triumphed on the Qidong Futures in 2022, gained all 5 of their matches on this week’s event, dropping solely two units alongside the way in which. Within the semifinals, Zhou & Yan mastered a 2-0 (21-9, 21-8) win over 14th-seeded compatriots Wang Jing & Liang Yunjia, and within the battle for the gold, they celebrated a 2-1 (21-16, 11-21, 15-12) victory over one other pair of 19-year-old Chinese language athletes, Tenth-seeded Jiang Kaiyue & Yu Tong.
By claiming the silver, Jiang adopted up on the second place she earned at her earlier Tour look with one other accomplice on the Wuhan Qingshan Futures in Might. For Yu, the Qidong silver was the primary Seashore Professional Tour medal of her profession. Of their semifinal, Jiang & Yu battled their technique to a 2-1 (27-25, 16-21, 15-11) victory over fourth-seeded Shiba & Maruyama, thus finishing a four-match successful streak on the way in which to the rostrum.
The Japanese pair bounced again with a hard-fought 2-1 (23-21, 18-21, 15-12) win over Wang & Liang to earn their second Seashore Professional Tour bronze.
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26 males’s and 25 girls’s groups representing a complete of 17 completely different nations took half within the Qidong Futures. Subsequent week, China will welcome one other Seashore Professional Tour occasion, the Qingdao Futures from September 12 to fifteen. There can even be a Futures occasion in Bujumbura, Burundi from September 11 to 14.
Qidong Futures: outcomes and standings
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