The first eight eighthfinalists of the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Adelaide emerged on Tuesday, and both the defending world champions and the reigning Olympic champions were among them. After two losses in a row, Paris 2024 gold medalists David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden got back on track with a big win, while Tlaxcala 2023 world champs Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia achieved their fourth win in Australia in a hard-fought three-setter. In one of the most interesting sixteenthfinal matches on Tuesday, Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan were pushed to overtime in both sets of their game against Brazil’s George Wanderley & Saymon Barbosa, but persevered to advance in the competition.

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10^th-seeded Cherif & Ahmed squeezed out a nail-biting 2-0 (23-21, 22-20) victory over George & Saymon on center court, with Ahmed leading the way with a team-high 20 points, including an ace and a kill block. Cherif raised four kill blocks and finished with 14 points, while Saymon shined with a match-high 28 points before exiting the World Championship. In Thursday’s eighthfinals, the Qataris will take on France’s Teo Rotar & Arnaud Gauthier-Rat. After three three-set wins in their pool, Rotar & Gauthier-Rat finally managed to get the job done in straight sets as they scored their fourth victory of the tournament on Tuesday. Still, they were pushed to overtime in the first set of their sixteenthfinal match before putting together a 2-0 (22-20, 21-12) shutout of Argentina’s Juan Amieva & Maciel Bueno, with a match-high 19 points from Rotar.

Eighth-seeded title holders Perusic & Schweiner, on the other hand, took three sets to overcome the resistance of Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt and celebrate a 2-1 (21-14, 25-27, 15-10) victory. Schweiner was the best scorer of the match with 26 points. Perusic aced four times during the game and signed off with a 21-point contribution. Esteban led the Grimalt cousins with 22 points. Perusic & Schweiner’s next challenge in the eighthfinals on Thursday will be presented by Portugal’s Joao Pedrosa & Hugo Campos, who achieved a 2-0 (21-16, 21-19) sixteenthfinal win over American Olympians Miles Evans & Chase Budinger to progress among the last 16 of the tournament. Pedrosa was the best scorer of that match with 19 points.

In a titanic clash between third-seeded Olympic champions Ahman & Hellvig and fifth-seeded Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak of Poland, the Swedish jump-setters hammered out a 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) sweep. Hellvig contributed a match-high 21 points, including four blocks and an ace, while Ahman chipped in with another 10, all in swings. Bryl was his team’s leading scorer with 17 points. In the eighthfinals, Ahman & Hellvig will face France’s Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye, who persevered through a three-set battle with Switzerland’s Yves Haussener & Julian Friedli to earn a 2-1 (21-11, 18-21, 15-9) victory with a match-high 20 points from Aye.

Ninth-seeded Chaim Schalk & James Shaw of the United States also took three sets to win their sixteenthfinal against 11^th-seeded Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso of Argentina. Schalk spearheaded the winners with 24 points towards a 2-1 (13-21, 22-20, 15-11) comeback victory. Shaw put away four kill blocks and two aces to finish with 22 points. Nicolas led the Capogrosso brothers with 23. The Americans’ next opponents also emerged from a tie-breaker duel. Cuba’s Noslen Diaz & Jorge Alayo, seeded sixth, claimed a 2-1 (21-18, 19-21, 15-12) win over another American pair, Miles Partain & Andrew Benesh, with Alayo and Benesh sharing the top scorer honors with 25 points each.

Sixteenthfinal action continues with the other eight matches on Wednesday, starting at 13:30 local time (03:00 UTC).

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