All 3 Pairs of Olympic Medalists Advance to Men’s Quarters at Rio Open

  0 Braden Keith | May 19th, 2017 | Beach, FIVB World Tour, News, Pro Beach

2017 FIVB WORLD BEACH TOUR – RIO DE JANIERO

While the Brazilians ruled the day in the women’s draw, it was the Americans who advanced 3 pairs to the quarterfinals of the men’s tournament. Friday’s matches played into the darkness in wet conditions in the Barra da Tijuca, where tennis was played during last summer’s Olympic Games.

Men’s Draw

Also lurking, though, are the defending men’s Olympic champions Alison/Bruno Schmidt, who will play Americans Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb in the quarterfinals. Crabb and Gibb advanced to the same round of their first tournament together as a pair this season, the Ft. Laurderdale major that opened the season in February, where they lost to another Brazilian pair – Evandro Goncalves and Andre Loyola.

In Rio, Evandro/Andre lost to their countrymates Alvaro Filho/Sayman in Friday’s round of 16, who dropped a 2-0 sweep (21-18, 21-18) in 39 minutes to advance. Alvaro Filho/Saymon advance to play the Italians Lupo/Nicolai, who took silver at last summer’s Olympic Games as a Cinderella-story 10th seed.

The bronze medalists also advanced to the quarterfinals – Dutch duo Brouwer/Meeuwsen will face Americans Brunner/Patterson in the round of 8.

All 4 Quarterfinal matchups:

Round of 16 results

MATCH NUMBER DATE TEAMS SETS 1 2 3 TOTAL POINTS DURATION
41 19/05/2017
Álvaro Filho/SaymonBRAvs.Evandro/AndreBRA
2 – 0
21 – 18
21 – 18
42 – 36
00:39
42 19/05/2017
Nicolai/LupoITAvs.Pedlow/SchachterCAN
2 – 1
14 – 21
21 – 14
15 – 12
50 – 47
00:40
43 19/05/2017
Doppler/HorstAUTvs.Losiak/KantorPOL
0 – 2
17 – 21
12 – 21
29 – 42
00:30
44 19/05/2017
Pedro Solberg/GutoBRAvs.Hyden/DohertyUSA
1 – 2
16 – 21
21 – 17
21 – 23
58 – 61
00:51
45 19/05/2017
Brouwer/MeeuwsenNEDvs.Virgen/OntiverosMEX
2 – 0
21 – 14
21 – 18
42 – 32
00:32
46 19/05/2017
Herrera/GaviraESPvs.Brunner/PattersonUSA
0 – 2
15 – 21
21 – 23
36 – 44
00:36
47 19/05/2017
Crabb Ta./GibbUSAvs.Ranghieri/CarambulaITA
2 – 0
21 – 17
25 – 23
46 – 40
00:42
48 19/05/2017
Alison/Bruno SchmidtBRAvs.Prudel/KujawiakPOL
2 – 0
21 – 11
21 – 18
42 – 29
00:33

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of VolleyMob.com. Braden's first foray into sports journalism came in 2010, when he launched a swimming website called The Swimmers' Circle. Two years later, he joined SwimSwam.com as a co-founder. Long huge fans of volleyball, when Braden and the SwimSwam partners sought an opportunity to …

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