Canadians Pavan/Humana-Paredes Knock Off Olympic Champions in Quarters

  0 Braden Keith | May 20th, 2017 | Beach, FIVB World Tour, News, Pro Beach

2017 FIVB WORLD BEACH TOUR – RIO DE JANIERO

The Olympic champions Ludwig/Walkenhorst have had their return to the FIVB World Tour ended in the quarterfinals in Rio. There, they fell to Canadian pair Sarah Pavan/Melissa Humana-Paredes in a 2-0 sweep (21-17, 21-13) on Saturday morning in Barra da Tijuca.

This is just the second lost of Ludwig/Walkenhorst’s return (they dropped 1 match in their debut on the German Tour earlier this month) from Ludwig’s shoulder surgery, and marked their 7th-straight top 5 finish on the FIVB World Tour, dating back a full year to the Moscow stop in 2016, where they took 9th.

Pavan/Humana-Paredes will face off against the Czechs Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, who beat the other German pair of Laboureur/Sude in their quarterfinal 2-1 (21-16, 19-21, 15-9).

On the other side of the bracket, the home fans will have an all-Brazilian semi-final, and a grudge match of sourts.

Agatha/Duda beat the American collegiate champions Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) and Barbara/Fernanda beat compatriots Larissa/Talita 2-1 (21-19, 13-21, 15-12).

Barbara and Agatha took Olympic silver medals together last summer on the beach before splitting up and finding new partners.

The semi-finals will be played on Saturday evening.

Quarterfinals losers will each receive $12,000 per team. By advancing to the semi-finals, Saturday morning’s winners are guaranteed of at least $16,000 per pair, with the opportunity to win $40,000 as winners.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (4-star) per gender in USD
Rank Number of teams Prize Money Per team Prize Money per Rank Place
1st 1 $16,000 $16,000
2nd 1 $12,000 $12,000
3rd 1 $10,000 $10,000
4th 1 $7,200 $7,200
5th 4 $5,800 $23,200
9th 8 $4,200 $33,600
17th 16 $3,000 $48,000
TOTAL $150,000

Quarterfinal Results:

ROUND 3

MATCH NUMBER DATE TEAMS SETS 1 2 3 TOTAL POINTS DURATION
49 20/05/2017
Ludwig/WalkenhorstGERvs.Pavan/Humana-ParedesCAN
0 – 2
17 – 21
13 – 21
30 – 42
00:31
50 20/05/2017
Laboureur/SudeGERvs.Hermannova/SlukovaCZE
1 – 2
16 – 21
21 – 19
9 – 15
46 – 55
00:48
51 20/05/2017
Agatha/DudaBRAvs.Claes/HughesUSA
2 – 0
21 – 19
21 – 17
42 – 36
00:33
52 20/05/2017
Barbara/FernandaBRAvs.Larissa/TalitaBRA
2 – 1
21 – 19
13 – 21
15 – 12
49 – 52
00:48

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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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