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Patience the key as Ludwig and Walkenhorst eye one more step
- Updated: August 16, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 16, 2016 – Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst reached the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games beach volleyball women’s gold medal match by defeating Brazil’s Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes 2-1 (21-18, 21-12) in the semifinals at the Copacabana Beach Venue on Tuesday.
They will take on either Brazil’s Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas or USA’s Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross, who meet later on Tuesday.
The gold medal match takes place on Wednesday.
Here’s what they said after the match….
Laura Ludwig, Germany
“I definitely was the nervous I’ve been before a match because it was the semi in front of the crowd and that is the third player. We talked about it before and wanted to keep focus on us.
“Winning the first set was really important to have patience and have lots of patience. We knew we could get at them with our …
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