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The future of Beach Volleyball on display at men’s A1 Major Klagenfurt
- Updated: July 30, 2016
Klagenfurt, Austria, July 30, 2016 – With the retirement of Beach Volleyball legends Emanuel Rego and Todd Rogers this season, one wonders if the sport has any future stars.
The answer is yes as “young guns” like Saymon Barbosa/Gustavo “Guto” Carvalhaes of Brazil and Bartosz Losiak/Michal Bryl of Poland played their way into the semi-finals of the US$800,000 A1 Major Klagenfurt here Saturday by winning a pair of matches each.
The two teams will meet in Sunday’s first-semi-finals as the 22-year old Brazilians will meet the 21-year old Bryl and 24-year old Losiak. Rio-bound Olympians Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk of Canada challenge Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins of Latvia in second of four matches Sunday.
While the Brazilians/Polish match is the first FIVB meeting between the two teams, Saxton and Schalk have won four of six matches with the Latvians with three-straight wins. Interestingly, the two teams will meet each other at midnight on August 7 on Copacabana at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Losiak, who is also head to Rio next week with Piotr Kantor, and Bryl advanced to the A1 Major Klagenfurt semi-final by defeating two Russian teams. As the 11th-seeded pair in the fourth of five SWATCH Major Series event, the Poles eliminated 25th-seeded Dmitri Barsouk/Nikita Liamin 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) in 35 …
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