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Women’s elimination matches highlight Friday’s SWATCH Finals schedule
- Updated: September 16, 2016
Toronto, Canada, September 16, 2016 – Eight women’s elimination contests highlight the 12-match SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals schedule here Friday with four of the six medal winning teams from the Rio 2016 Olympics Games performing on the two-court beach volleyball layout on Polson Pier.
The US$500,000 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals also features men’s competition where the final four pool play matches will be contested Friday to set the schedule for Saturday’s two elimination rounds. The women’s “final four” matches are scheduled for Saturday with the men’s semi-finals and medal contests set for Sunday. The winning teams will share the $100,000 first-place prizes.
The women’s schedule Friday opens with four first-round elimination bracket matches featuring Rio Olympic gold medal winners Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst as the Germans failed to win their pool Thursday by dropping a pair of contests to teams from Argentina and Switzerland.
With Ludwig and Walkenhorst being placed in the top-half of the elimination bracket after finishing third in Pool B, the Germans will meet Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson of Canada with the winning team playing Rio Olympic bronze medal winners April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States in the quarter-finals.
Ross and Walsh Jennings posted wins over pairs from Australia and Switzerland Thursday to win Pool A to join Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca of Brazil, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude of Germany and Joana …
