USA’s Corinne Quiggle & Chloe Loreen won both of their playoff matches at the Cape Town Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour so far to book their spot in the women’s quarterfinals in South Africa. Qualifiers Katja Stam & Raisa Schoon of the Netherlands also advanced to the last eight, while another four tickets to the quarterfinals were booked by high-seeded pool winners, who started their playoff campaigns directly from the round of 12.

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In their round-of-12 game, ninth-seeded Quiggle & Lorreen mastered a 2-0 (21-13, 21-15) upset of sixth-seeded Germans Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann, with Loreen putting up four kill blocks towards a 15-point tally and Quiggle topping the charts with a match-high 17 points, including one ace. Before that, the Americans produced a 2-0 (21-9, 21-18) shutout of compatriots Carly Kan & Devanne Sours in the round of 18. In the quarterfinals, Quiggle & Lorreen will take on another German opponent, Sandra Ittlinger & Anna-Lena Grune, one of the two teams that lost their round-of-12 matches, but still earned berths among the last eight.

Stam & Schoon, who were initially part of the qualification pool, also made it to the quarterfinals. In their first playoff round match on Friday, the 17^th-seeded Dutch duo mastered a 2-0 (21-17, 21-12) shutout of Lithuanian qualifiers Ieva Vasiliauskaite & Erika Kliokmanaite. Then, due to the injury withdrawal of top-seeded Brazilians Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes from their round-of-12 game against Stam & Schoon, the Dutch Olympians advanced further with a forfeit win.

Second-seeded Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth will be Stam & Schoon’s next rival. The Italians cruised through their round-of-12 match against American qualifiers Teegan Van Gunst & Piper Ferch to take a 2-0 (21-13, 21-11) victory, with five serving aces by Orsi Toth. Van Gunst & Ferch, however, also emerged as one of the two losing teams who gained passage to the quarterfinals.

The 21^st-seeded Americans will now challenge fifth-seeded Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia, who put together a 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) round-of-12 win over Lithuanian qualifiers Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite. Tina led the way with 26 points, including three aces.

Third-seeded Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann were forced to a tight all-German battle with Ittlinger & Grune. Both sets of the match were pushed to overtime before Muller & Tillmann could celebrate their advancement with a narrow 2-0 (24-22, 23-21) win. Muller was the best scorer of the game with 29 points under her belt.

In their quarterfinal, Muller & Tillmann will lock horns with fourth-seeded Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre. The Swiss sisters passed through the second playoff round with a 2-0 (21-15, 21-14) victory over Norwegian qualifiers Nina Pavlova & Sunniva Helland-Hansen. Anouk contributed three kill blocks and an ace towards a match-high 17-point total.

The women’s quarterfinals will be played on Saturday – two at 18:00 local time (16:00 UTC) and the other two at 19:00 (17:00).

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