Jude Garcia, Krung Arbasto advance to AVC beach volleyball quarterfinals | Inquirer Sports

Jude Garcia, Krung Arbasto advance to AVC beach volleyball quarterfinals

By: - Reporter / @BLozadaINQ
/ 10:35 PM November 25, 2021

PHI 1’s Jude Garcia/Arbasto Anthony Lemuel Jr in the 2021 AVC Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships

PHI 1’s Jude Garcia/Arbasto Anthony Lemuel Jr in the 2021 AVC Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships. AVC PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines 1’s Jude Garcia and Krung Arbasto advanced to the quarterfinals after surviving a close three-setter against Qatar 2’s Ahmed Mahmoud and Saifeddin Elmajid, 22-20, 18-21, 15-12, in the 2021 AVC Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships Thursday in Phuket, Thailand.

Garcia and Arbasto earlier booked their slot in the knockout stage after a two-set sweep of Singapore’s Kingsley Tay and Melvin Goh Teng Kuan, 26-24, 21-16, in their final match of the preliminaries.

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The two will take on Iran’s Bahman Salemiinjehboroun and Abolhassan Khakizadeh in the quarterfinals on Friday.

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The Philippines’ women pairs, however, didn’t fare better than in their respective final matches in the preliminaries.

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Sisi Rondina and Bernadeth Pons, bronze medalists in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, of Philippines 1 lost to Japan’s Hasegawa Aiko and Sakaguchi Yurika, 21-17, 21-15, in their final match.

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They took a 21-15, 24-22, win over Australia’s Alisha Stevens and Jana Milutovinic in their first match of the Thursday schedule to take an even 2-2 record in Pool D.

Gen Eslapor and Dij Rodriguez of Philippines 2 bowed to Australia’s Jasmine Fleming and Stefanie Fejes, 21-18, 21-14, in their final match after taking down Kazakhstan’s Alina Rachenko and Anastassiya Ukolova, 21-7, 21-19, in their first match of the day.

Philippines 2 ended the group stage at 2-2 in Pool A but settled for third place due to quotient.

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TAGS: 2021 AVC Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships, Bernadeth Pons, Dij Rodriguez, Gen Eslapor, Jude Garcia, Krung Arbasto, Sisi Rondina

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