Ross & Walsh Jennings third Copacabana women’s pool winner

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 10, 2016 – After pairs from Australia and Spain posted seed-break-through wins to capture Rio 2016 Olympic women’s Beach Volleyball groups, Americans April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings protected their seeding by securing the Pool C title by defeating Isabelle Forrer and Anouk Verge-Depre of Switzerland in three sets.

With their 2-1 (21-13, 22-24, 15-12) win in 65 minutes over the Swiss pair to secure their three match win of the competition, Ross and Walsh Jennings maintained their third-seeding when the 16-team elimination bracket is played Friday and Saturday.  The win was the Americans fourth international victory over Forrer and Verge-Depre in as many matches.

Ross and Walsh Jennings controlled the first set throughout by jumping out to 4-0 and 8-1 leads.  The second set featured 13 ties and three lead changes with two hitting errors by the Americans on the final two serves by the Swiss …

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