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Olympic quarter-final win a birthday gift for Walsh Jennings
- Updated: August 15, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 14, 2016 – The first ones to sing American Kerri Walsh Jennings happy birthday on her 38th birthday here early Monday morning was the crowd of more than 8,500 at the “Coliseu on Copacabana” as the three-time “Summer” Games gold medal winner and April Ross scored a two-set win over Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy of Australia to advance to the women’s Beach Volleyball semi-finals at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
In defeating the Aussies for the fifth-straight time internationally, Walsh Jennings and Ross posted a 2-0 (21-14, 21-16) win in 40 minutes to eliminate Bawden and Clancy. With members of the USA men’s basketball team in attendance, both teams entered the contest with 4-0 Rio records after winning their pools before posting an opening elimination victories.
Both sets were close early with Walsh Jennings and Russ using scoring runs of 8-2 and 7-2 in each set to secure the victory. The first set was tied at 9s when the 8-2 spurt occurred for the Americans. In the second set, …
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