Volleyball…Beijing 2008

The semi finals have been decided. They will be played later today.

The rest of the results are out. No surprises that the No 1 and 2 seeds have booked themselves a place in the semi finals. The rest will fight it out tomorrow to earn a place.

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Rieke Brink-Abeler (right) stretches for the Mikasa as German partner Hella Jurich watches

Phuket, Thailand, November 2, 2007 - Teams from China, Germany and the United States will compete here later Friday afternoon for the first two spots in the semi-finals for the US$200,000 Phuket Thailand Open powered by ptt on Karon Beach.

The United States is guaranteed one berth in Saturday afternoon’s “final four” schedule after the teams of top-seeded Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh and 13th-seeded Tyra Turner/Rachel Wacholder won their opening Main Draw matches Friday by defeating teams from Brazil.

Here are the results from Day 3. More games to be played later in the day, two semi final places from the winners bracket will be decided. The other two will be decided with more games tomorrow.

Below- Contenders Bracket; Losers Ranked 13th Winners advance

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The last time that Ana Paula Connelly played with a member of the Bede family, she left with a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour gold medal and an Asian trophy in her luggage.

The Brazilian is hoping that her luggage for her return trip home next Monday to Rio de Janeiro will contain another FIVB medal and Asian trophy as she has teamed with another Bede this week’s US$200,000 Phuket Thailand Open powered by ptt on Karon Beach.

Click here to download an interview with USA pair May-Treanor and Walsh.

Here are the results from R2 winners bracket. The tournament moves into Day 2 without seeds 3 and 4. The Chinese pair losing in the first round and the US pair in the second. Click here to see the rest of the results including those from the losers bracket.

Here are the results from Round one of the Main draw at the Phuket Open. Looks like there were some interesting matches. Top seeded Americans Walsh and May-Treanor were pushed to three sets by Ukraine 32 seeded pair. Second seeded Chinese Tian Jia and Wang were also taken to three by popular Japanese team Asao and Take. A tough first round opponent for the much loved Japanese pair, they would have had a lot of support in Thailand. The big upset of the day was Keizer and De-Vries of the Netherlands, the 30th seed and qualifiers, knocking over the 3rd seeded Chinese pair to advance in the winners bracket.

Click here to read the recent press release from FIVB on day 1 of competition at the Phuket Open.

With the completion of the first-round of the Main Draw at the final event on the 2007 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour calendar, there are some interesting notes as the delightful weather has attracted fans to the seaside resort village at Karon Beach.

 

With 14 of the 102 players competing in the US$200,000 Phuket Thailand Open Open powered by ptt under the age of 21, two of the most experienced players on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour are competing together for the first-time in an international Beach Volleyball event.