Powerful Dutchmen Steven van de Velde & Alexander Brouwer will lead Pool C awaiting a team from the qualifiers to be their first opponent in the main draw. In the other Pool C opener, USA’s Robert Harrison & Cody Caldwell will take on Brazil’s Adelmo Folha & Mateus Dultra.
Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Clemens Wickler & Nils Ehlers of Germany will star in Pool D. If they beat a team from the qualifications in the first leg of pool play, they will meet the winner of the game between Brazil’s Vinicius Freitas & Heitor Barbosa and South African wild cards Kemoloile Otsweleng & Mthokozisi Mndingi.
Pool E will have two members arising from the qualifiers. They will challenge France’s Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye and Norway’s Mathias Berntsen & Hendrik Mol in the first-leg matches of the pool.
Similarly, in Pool F, Austria’s Timo Hammarberg & Tim Berger and Germany’s Paul Henning & Lui Wust are waiting to find out their first opponents.
A number of high-caliber duos are set to contest the qualifications on Wednesday morning to fill up the remaining main draw vacancies. The list includes the likes of USA's Hagen Smith & Logan Webber, Norway's Nils Ringoen & Even Aas, France's Elouan Chouikh-Barbez & Joadel Gardoque, or Austria's Alexander Horst & Moritz Pristauz, among others. The men’s qualifiers are set to get underway at 08:00 local time (06:00 UTC).
Once the main draw serves off on Wednesday afternoon, modified pool play format will determine the three teams per pool that will advance to the elimination rounds, which will eventually lead to Sunday’s medal matches in Cape Town.
