Monday’ evening session of the Olympic beach volleyball event at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris offered the last eighthfinals in the women’s and the men’s competitions, with Brazil’s Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) and Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan booking the lest vacancies in the upcoming quarterfinals.

The number one team in the women’s FIVB World Ranking, top-seeded Ana Patricia & Duda, left no room for surprises in their game against 20^th-seeded Akiko Hasegawa & Miki Ishii of Japan and hammered out a speedy 2-0 (21-15, 21-16) victory, outplaying the opponents on all counts, except for serving. Duda led the way with 20 points, including one kill block, while Ana Patricia contributed three kill blocks and 10 kills in attack. Akiko spearheaded the Japanese duo with 18 points to her name.

“We are very happy, because it was very important to win this game,” Duda told the FIVB. “We prepared a lot for it. The Japanese team is very strong. They are always fancy, their service is very difficult, their concentration is high and they are focused on the point. And their passing is probably among the best, it’s amazing!”

In one of Wednesday’s quarterfinals, Ana Patricia & Duda will lock horns with Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova for a spot in the semifinals.

“We know the next game is going to be really tough, but now it’s time to calm down, study, prepare ourselves to do our best. They play very well. It’s a difficult team for us, because it’s always 2-1, we always play tie-breaks… So tomorrow we are going to study, concentrate and train…”

In the very last match of the eighthfinal round, 13^th-seeded Cherif & Ahmed, Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallists, mastered a 2-0 (21-14, 21-13) victory over 23^rd-seeded Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt of Chile to register their fourth consecutive win in Paris.

Cherif & Ahmed stayed well in control throughout the match and prevailed in all elements of the game. Cherif shined on the block and raised as many as seven stuffs, including the one that brought in the match winner, and finished with a 15-point match high. Ahmed led the Qatari attack and fired one ace to tally a total of 14 points.

On Wednesday, Cherif & Ahmed will take on Miles Partain & Andrew Benesh of the United States in a quarterfinal battle for passage to the last four.

The quarterfinals will start on Tuesday at 17:00 local time (15:00 UTC) with the men’s clash between third-seeded Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany and seventh-seeded Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands.

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