Challenge - Nuvali, PHI - 2025

Bisgaard & Hog and Parkkinen & Prihti press on at Nuvali Challenge

Women’s eighthfinal line-up all set

Published 04:46, 17 Oct 2025

Denmark’s Sofia Bisgaard & Cirkeline Hog against USA’s Morgan Chacon & Alaina Chacon at the Nuvali Challenge

Denmark’s Sofia Bisgaard & Cirkeline Hog and Finland’s Anniina Parkkinen & Valma Prihti, who started their Nuvali Challenge adventures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour from the qualifiers, won their pools in the Philippines and made it directly into the second elimination round, set to get Saturday’s women’s action underway. The entire line-up for the eighthfinals is already set, as the sixteenthfinal matches between teams placed second and third in their pools were also played on Friday.

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Bisgaard & Hog, seeded 30^th in the 32-team main draw, recorded their third consecutive win in Santa Rosa, a 2-0 (21-16, 21-14) sweep of the Pool C final against Thailand’s Tanarattha Udomchavee & Rumpaipruet Numwong, to top the pool standings and jump straight into the eighthfinals, where they will meet 12^th-seeded Ren Matsumoto & Non Matsumoto. Ren & Non, who finished Pool E runners-up, went on to win the all-Japanese sixteenthfinal clash with Asami Shiba & Reika Murakami by 2-0 (26-24, 21-16) to advance.

Bisgaard/Høg vs. Udomchavee/Numwong - Match Highlights, 10/17/2025

25th-seeded Parkkinen & Prihti battled it out for a 2-1 (13-21, 21-16, 15-8) comeback win over Romanian qualifiers Francesca Alupei & Beata Vaida to win Pool H and leap ahead to the second knockout round. The Finns will take on Annique Niederhauser & Menia Bentele for a spot in the quarterfinals. The 17th-seeded Swiss duo lived through two tie-breakers on Friday. First they lost the Pool A final to top-seeded Australians Taliqua Clancy & Jana Milutinovic in a tough 2-1 (21-18, 14-21, 18-16) battle, but then they achieved a 2-1 (18-21, 24-22, 15-12) victory over the Filipino home team of Cherry Ann Rondina & Bernadeth Pons in the only three-setter of the sixteenthfinal round.

Parkkinen/Prihti vs. Vaida/Alupei - Match Highlights, 10/17/2025

Clancy & Milutinovic, on the other hand, are awaiting Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite in the eighthfinals. After losing the all-Lithuanian Pool B final to second-seeded compatriots Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte by 2-0 (21-18, 21-14), Dumbauskaite & Grudzinskaite bounced back with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-14) shutout of USA’s Teegan Van Gunst & Piper Ferch.

Paulikiene & Raupelyte are set to take on Thailand’s Udomchavee & Numwong, who hammered out a 2-0 (21-9, 21-18) shutout of Japan’s Sakura Ito & Mayu Sawame in the sixteenthfinals.

Another Thai team, Taravadee Naraphornrapat & Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, finished first in Pool D after a hard-fought 2-1 (21-17, 17-21, 15-12) victory over fourth-seeded Shaunna Polley & Olivia MacDonald of New Zealand, and are set to face Estonia’s Heleene Hollas & Liisa Remmelg in the eighthfinals. Hollas & Remmelg, who knocked third-seeded Americans Morgan Chacon & Alaina Chacon out of contention by shutting them out in the Pool C third-place match, went on to master a 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) sweep of their sixteenthfinal against Lithuania’s Jekaterina Saule Kovalskaja & Daniele Kvedaraite.

Fifth-seeded Aussies Elizabeth Alchin & Georgia Johnson topped Pool E with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-17) shutout of Japan’s Ren & Non and are ready to take on their eighthfinal opponents, Polley & MacDonald, on Saturday. The Kiwis got back on the winning track with a 2-0 (21-19, 21-16) victory over German qualifiers Chenoa Christ & Tabea Schwarz in the first knockout round.

With a 2-0 (21-13, 21-9) shutout of Lithuania’s Kovalskaja & Kvedaraite, sixth-seeded Czechs Kylie Neuschaeferova & Martina Maixnerova also lived up to their ranking and topped the standings in Pool F. Their next opponents, seventh-seeded Thainara Oliveira & Talita Simonetti of Brazil, lost the Pool G final to 10^th-seeded Jasmine Fleming & Stefanie Fejes of Australia by 2-0 (21-16, 21-18), but recovered with a 2-0 (21-14, 21-15) sweep of their sixteenthfinal against Japanese qualifiers Miharu Kashihara & Izumi Ishihara.

Fleming & Fejes’ eighthfinal rivals, USA’s Devanne Sours & Madison Shields, emerged from a 2-0 (21-17, 21-16) sixteenthfinal win over Romania’s Alupei & Vaida.