After winning the first set in the overtime, Bauer & Anderson went on to close their match with Wang & Xinyi in straight sets, 2-0 (22-20, 21-16), and are already awaiting their second elimination round opponents, who will emerge from the first knockouts, placing the pool runners-up against the third-placed teams.
21st-seeded Placette & Richard, who started their Haikou quest from the qualifiers, topped Pool D. The French Paris 2024 Olympians produced a 2-0 (21-19, 21-14) victory in the pool winners’ match against 16th-seeded Wang Xinxin & Dong Jie of China and progressed to the round of 12.
Qualifiers Shaw & Toni, seeded 19th, also advanced to the second knockout round after their Pool F final opponents Clemence Vieira & Aline Chamereau of France forfeited the match.
The all-Australian final of Pool E was decided deep into the overtime of the second set in favour of fifth-seeded Taliqua Clancy & Georgia Johnson, who celebrated a 2-0 (21-18, 26-24) win over eighth-seeded qualifiers Stefanie Fejes & Jana Milutinovic.
Second-seeded Xue Chen & Zeng Jinjin of China and third-seeded Niina Ahtiainen & Taru Lahti-Liukkonen of Finland lived up to their status and won the Pool B and Pool C finals against USA’s Hailey Harward & Kylie Kuyava-De Berg by 2-1 (18-21, 21-18, 15-7) and against Japan’s Asami Shiba & Reika Murakami by 2-0 (21-16, 21-16), respectively.
On Saturday morning, starting at 09:00 local time (01:00 UTC), the six pool runners-up, who lost the above-mentioned matches, will line up against the six teams that finished third in the pools by winning their losers’ games on Friday – Poland’s Aleksandra Wachowicz & Julia Radelczuk from Pool A, Austria’s Lena Plesiutschnig & Katharina Schützenhofer from Pool B, Germany’s Anna-Lena Grune & Lea Sophie Kunst from Pool C, New Zealand’s Shaunna Polley & Olivia MacDonald from Pool D, Spain’s Belen Carro & Sofia Gonzalez from Pool E and China’s Yan Xu & Zhou Mingli from Pool D – in elimination duels for the remaining vacancies in the second knockout round.
