Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan in action against USA’s Trevor Crabb and Tri Bourne during their second Pool G match at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, Warsaw event in Poland, yesterday.
Warsaw: Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan yesterday emerged on top of the Pool G table at the Warsaw leg of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour to advance directly to the second elimination round after winning both of their matches.
The seventh-seeded Qataris recorded a 2-0 (21-16, 21-17) victory over USA’s Trevor Crabb and Tri Bourne in their second Pool match yesterday.
They defeated Slovenian qualifiers Jan Pokersnik and Nejc Zemljak in their opening match on the banks of Wisla in Poland on Thursday.
The seventh-seeded Qataris now face a tough challenge as they go against third-seeded Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy of Russia.
Krasilnikov and Stoyanovskiy lost to Brazil’s Alison Cerutti and Alvaro Morais Filho 1-2 (18-21, 21-17, 12-15) in Pool C.
In Pool F, Evandro Goncalves Oliveira Junior & Bruno Oscar Schmidt mastered a 2-0 (21-16, 21-18) shutout of sixth-seeded Italians Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo and are waiting for their second elimination round rivals - Latvia’s Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins.
Two Brazilian teams managed to upset higher seeded opponents in the pool winners’ matches. After almost one hour of play time, Alison Cerutti/Alvaro Morais Filho snatched a 2-1 (21-18, 17-21, 15-12) victory over third-seeded Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Oleg Stoyanovskiy of Russia to top Pool C.
