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Qatar’s top-bet team of Jefferson Pereira and Thiago Santos went down fighting against Germany’s Max Betzien and Niklas Rudolf in their first match of the main round in the FIVB Beach Volleyball Qatar Open at the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy (QBVA) courts in Al Gharafa yesterday. |
Much was expected from the reigning Arab champions, but they lost 2-0 in the Group A match in 40 minutes.
The Pereira-Santos pair, currently ranked 39th in the world, lost the first game 19-21 and second 18-21. Their best performance this season was the quarterfinal appearance at the Anapa Open in Russia in June. They had also triumphed at the Khanom-Chang Asian Beach Volleyball Tour event in Thailand.
Mahmoud Essam-Asef Sultan, the second team of Qatar, also lost their Group B first match as they were outplayed by the Canadian pair of Josh Binstock-Sam Schachter 2-0 (21-17, 21-13).
The Parana Open gold medal winning pair of Binstock-Schachter played superbly to win their first match against the hosts. The pair was playing in just their seventh FIVB World Tour event but once again they combined very well to finish the game in 30 minutes.
Qatar’s third team Abdel Rasool-Abdulaziz Khalouf also lost their first Group C match to Latvia’s Aleksandrs Samoilovs-Toms Smedins 2-0 (21-15, 21-17).
Qatar’s fourth team -- Ahmed Tijan- Cherif Younousse – lost to Omana’s Haitham-Ahmed 3-0 in the qualifying round on Tuesday. The last time Qatar fielded more than one team was at the Durban Open in South Africa last December.
Doha is making its debut as a World Tour venue. Previously it hosted beach volleyball as part of the Doha 2006 Asian Games. The World Tour is made up of 10 Grand Slam tournaments and eight Opens. The next and final tournament on the 2014 World Tour is the Mangaung Open in South Africa that runs from December 9-14.
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