All 4 quarterfinal vacancies nonetheless up for grabs and everyone remains to be in rivalry
Jonatan Hellvig in assault
The highest two seeds within the males’s Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour Finals in Doha – Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan and Sweden’s David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig – lived as much as their standing, received their swimming pools and secured their direct tickets to the semifinals. With one leg of pool-play matches left to be performed on Friday, everyone else remains to be in rivalry for the 4 quarterfinal spots.
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Cherif celebrates with the house crowd
Pool A
To their two wins on Wednesday, Cherif & Ahmed added one other two on Thursday and wrapped up their Pool A marketing campaign undefeated, safely on prime of the pool standings and into the semifinals. They began their day with a hard-fought 2-1 (16-21, 21-17, 15-13) comeback in opposition to Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallists, fifth-seeded Germans Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler. Ehlers was the perfect scorer of that match with 25 factors. Then, the house workforce squeezed out a decent 2-0 (23-21, 22-20) win over fourth-seeded Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands, with a 22-point match excessive from Cherif, together with six kill blocks.
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Cherif/Ahmed vs. Ehlers/Wickler – Pool Play Highlights | Doha Finals 2024 #BeachProTour
Reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia put collectively a 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) win over eighth-seeded Italians Samuele Cottafava & Paolo Nicolai, with Schweiner main the way in which with 19 factors. Later within the day, nonetheless, the Czechs suffered a 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) shutout by the hands of Ehlers & Wickler. Ehlers as soon as once more topped the match scorers with 20 factors.
With the Germans enjoying the Italians and the Dutch taking up the Czechs on Friday, all 4 groups have their photographs on the second or the third place which grant development to Friday night’s quarterfinals.
Pool B
Pool B adopted an identical state of affairs to crown Olympic champions Ahman & Hellvig as early pool winners on a 4-0 win-loss document. Nevertheless, all 4 of their matches had been resolved in tie-breakers. The Swedes got here again from a set down in every of the 2 video games they performed on Thursday – 2-1 (19-21, 21-4, 15-6) over Matthew Immers & Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands with 10 kill blocks by Hellvig in the direction of a 26-point match excessive, and 2-1 (15-21, 21-17, 15-8) within the massive Scandinavian conflict with third-seeded Norwegians Anders Mol & Christian Sorum.
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Åhman/Hellvig vs. van de Velde/Immers – Pool Play Highlights | Doha Finals 2024 #BeachProTour
After an epic second set, ninth-seeded English wild playing cards Joaquin Bello & Javier Bello celebrated a 2-0 (21-16, 35-33) shutout of seventh-seeded Brazilians Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano, however then misplaced to Immers & Van de Velde, additionally in straight units, 2-0 (21-13, 21-17).
This fashion, all 4 groups beneath the primary place stand on a 1-2 win-loss document, which supplies their final pool matches on Friday an eighthfinal standing. The Dutch will tackle the Brazilians and the Norwegians will face the English, with the winners of the 2 video games advancing to the quarterfinals.
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