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Åhman/Hellvig (SWE) vs. George/Saymon (BRA) - Pool C #72422583

Brazil’s Saymon outplays Sweden’s Hellvig over the net

In a storyline, stunningly evoking memories of the Paris 2024 Games, where David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig lost two of their pool games, but persevered through to triumph as Olympic champions, the Swedish jump-setters are doing it again at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Adelaide! At least the first part for now…

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Third-seeded Ahman & Hellvig conceded their second loss in Australia on Sunday and finished third in Pool C, barely surviving in the competition, separated from fourth-placed Paul Burnett & Thomas Hodges on point ratios. The Swedes will move on to the elimination rounds, but will have to wait till the end of the entire pool phase to find out if they will go straight to the sixteenthfinals, or will have to pass through the round of 36, dubbed “the lucky loser round”. Meanwhile, the two Brazilian teams – Andre Stein & Renato Lima and George Wanderley & Saymon Barbosa – who defeated Ahman & Hellvig on Saturday and on Sunday, respectively, took the first two places in the final pool standings, in that order, and booked their direct tickets to the sixteenthfinals.

On Sunday, George & Saymon achieved a 2-1 (24-22, 12-21, 15-12) victory over Ahman & Hellvig. Saymon put away two aces and three kill blocks to lead his team with 23 points. George also fired two aces towards a 22-point tally, while Ahman topped the match charts with 24 points for the Swedish team. In the other third-leg game, Andre & Renato came back from a set down to beat Burnett & Hodges by 2-1 (18-21, 21-19, 15-10). Andre raised an impressive eight kill blocks and nailed two aces to finish with 25 points. Hodges answered with five blocks and three aces to emerge with a match-high 28 points.

Pool L was also completed on Sunday, with three teams advancing in the tournament on a 2-1 win-loss record each. With the tie broken by the point ratios from the results between these three teams, France’s Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye celebrated as pool winners, Australia’s Mark Nicolaidis & Izac Carracher delighted the home crowd as pool runners-up, while Chile’s Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt finished third on a record already good enough to reserve them a safe passage straight into the sixteenthfinals. In the third leg of matches, the Aussies handed the French their first defeat, a tight 2-0 (21-19, 24-22), while the Chilean cousins mastered a 2-0 (21-10, 21-11) sweep of their game against Ilyas Rhouni Lazaar & Soufiane El Gharouti, leaving the Moroccans winless and out of contention.

In Pools B, E and K, where the second leg of matches was played on Sunday, half of the teams remained undefeated with secured spots in the sixteenthfinals, while the other half remained winless with a last chance for survival in Monday’s deciders for the third places in the pools.

In Pool B, second-seeded Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands mastered a 2-0 (21-18, 21-17) shutout of Norway’s Markus Mol & Adrian Mol. The other Norwegian pair in the pool, Hendrik Mol & Mathias Berntsen, defeated Australia’s Luke Ryan & Zachery Schubert by a hard-fought 2-0 (21-16, 22-20).

In Pool E, Germany’s Lukas Pfretzschner & Sven Winter produced a 2-0 (21-14, 21-16) sweep of their game against China’s Wang Yanwei & Du Hongjun, while fifth-seeded Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak came back from a set down against Austria’s Christoph Dressler & Philipp Waller to celebrate a 2-1 (19-21, 21-17, 15-9) victory.

Another German duo, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler, took their second win in Pool K, a 2-0 (21-11, 21-8) shutout of Mozambique’s Jose Mondlane & Osvaldo Mungoi. Argentina’s Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso scored their second victory in a 2-1 (19-21, 21-17, 15-9) three-setter against Canada’s Samuel Schachter & Jonathan Pickett.

Men’s pool play at Adelaide 2025 will continue on Monday at 09:00 local time (22:30 UTC on Sunday).