Younousse, Tijan Reach Rio Quarters

2025-09-28 04:18:42

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Qatar's Cherif Younousse and Ahmad Tijan advanced to the quarter-finals of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite16 in Rio de Janeiro, edging Latvia's Martins Plavins and Kristians Fokerots 2-1 (15-21, 21-17, 15-12) in a thrilling Round of 12 clash yesterday. They opened their Pool C campaign with a 2-0 (29-27, 21-14) win over Ruben Penninga and Matthew Immers of the Netherlands, but later fell 1-2 (16-21, 21-15, 10-15) to France's Teo Rotar and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat.

In the knockout stage, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medalists defeated Tadeas Trousil and Juri Sedlak 2-0 (21-14, 21-18) in the Round of 18, before edging the Latvian pair of Plavins and Fokerots to make the last eight.

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