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One Beach Volleyball Olympic pool leadership at stake Monday
- Updated: August 8, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 7, 2016 – With 12 men’s and women’s Beach Volleyball matches on the schedule here Monday at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, only one contest will feature the “battle of unbeatens” when American Olympic medalists April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings are challenged by China’s Fan Wang and Yuan Yue.
Both teams won opening Pool C matches early Sunday morning over teams from Australia and Switzerland to set up Monday’s tie-breaker. The match will be the fifth international meeting between the two teams with Ross and Walsh Jennings holding a 3-1 edge after defeating Wang and Yue in a pool match in mid-April at the Xiamen Open in China.
The one Chinese win was at the 2015 FIVB World Championships in The Netherlands as Wang and Yue posted a 2-1 (21-19, 17-21, 15-13) win in 56 minutes over Ross and Walsh Jennings. It should be noted that Walsh Jennings’ world championship appearance was her first action after missing three FIVB World Tour events with Ross due to a right shoulder dislocation at the 2015 Moscow Grand Slam.
The “battle of unbeatens” was setup when Wang and Yue posted the opening day’s only women’s seed-break-through win by out-lasting Isabelle …
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