Pool C will be led by the world’s number nine Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann of Germany, also offering the strong presence of number 11 Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger of Austria, as well as that of Brazil’s Vitoria Rodrigues & Hegeile Almeida.
Awaiting their first opponent from the qualifiers in Pool D will be Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre, the number 10 duo in the World Ranking. The first leg of that pool will also present an encounter between USA’s Corinne Quiggle & Chloe Loreen and South African wild cards Tatiana Simopoulos & Costandina Karina Kinsey.
Pool E will have two members arising from the qualifiers. They will challenge Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova, ranked fifth in the world, and French Olympians Clemence Vieira & Aline Chamereau in the first-leg matches of the pool.
Similarly, in Pool F, two German pairs – Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann and Sandra Ittlinger & Anna-Lena Grune – are waiting to find out their first opponents.
Netherlands’ two-time Olympians Katja Stam & Raisa Schoon, who won the Veracruz Challenge some 15 days ago, will star in the qualification bracket at the Cape Town Elite. So will Lithuania's Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite, who took silver at last week’s Nuvali Challenge.
Estonia's Heleene Hollas & Liisa Remmelg, USA's Teegan Van Gunst & Piper Ferch and Carly Kan & Devanne Sours, Japan's Asami Shiba & Reika Murakami, Hungary's Lilla Villam & Stefania Kun, Slovenia's Ziva Javornik & Tajda Lovsin and Norway's Nina Pavlova & Sunniva Helland-Hansen are some of the other high-quality duos set to compete for the remaining main draw vacancies in South Africa, as the women’s qualifiers serve off at 11:30 local time (09:30 UTC) on Wednesday.
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.
