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Walsh-Jennings chasing further chapters to legendary story
- Updated: August 4, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 4, 2016 – Kerri Walsh-Jennings will be ready to write a new chapter in her Olympic history as she chases a fourth Olympic gold at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics Games, but for the first time in tandem with April Ross.
Walsh-Jennings and Ross teamed up midway through the 2013 season after playing one another in the London 2012 gold medal match. Walsh-Jennings won that clash, as she had all three of her Olympic finals with long-time partner Misty May-Treanor.
The London 2012 final was May-Treanor’s last act before she retired from the sport and after Ross’ partner Jennifer Kessy took a break from the sport in 2013 she and Walsh-Jennings played their first tournament together at the Gstaad Grand Slam.
Walsh-Jennings underwent shoulder surgery at the end of 2015, but is now back to full fitness and is in confident mood for the challenge ahead.
“If we come out and show that we are the best, then it will take care of itself,” Walsh-Jennings said. “It feels so new in so many ways, then energy of the Olympics is something that is so very, very special and is impossible to recreate.”
Brazil’s pairs of Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes and Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas are likely to be their main challengers.
Larissa and Talita go into the tournament as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour champions, while Agatha and Barbara won the Netherlands 2015, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships.
“The field is deeper than it’s ever been – Brazil, Germany, Italy, Canada – lots of teams that have really made a breakthrough in the last four years,” Ross said. “A couple of teams that you wouldn’t expect could upset some higher ranked teams.”
Pool A – World Tour champs Larissa and Talita lead the way as number one seeds and they are both veterans of Beijing 2008 and London 2012, where Larissa won bronze with Juliana Felisberta. Poland’s Kinga Kolosinska and Monika Brzostek are one of the up and coming teams on the World Tour and they won silver at the 2016 Rio Grand Slam. Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat …
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