It was a day full of surprises onFriday at the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour BeijingGrand Slam. Following the elimination of four of the top five seeds from thewomen's side including two-time Olympic champions Kerri Walsh/MistyMay-Treanor of the United States, their compatriots and BeijingOlympic winners Todd Rogers/Philip Dalhausser also crashed out ofthe men's elimination round at the hands of Italian 14th seedsNicolai Paolo and Daniele Lupo. Dropping their second pool J match against Latvia's 17th seedsAlexandrs Samoilous and Ruslans Sorokins on Thursday, top seededRogers/Dalhausser scored a 21-19 and 21-18 victory over Germany's16th seeds Eric Koreng/David Klemperer Friday morning to enter the24-team knockout stage as second finishers from the preliminarygroup. Trailing 17-11 in the second set, the Americans ran off six pointsin a row to level it at 17-all and went on to seal the victory in45 minutes. "I mean we expected a third set all the way, when we were down17-11, we made a couple of play, they made a couple of mistakes,and all of a sudden it's 17-all, I guess momentum changes fast inthis game of beach volleyball," said Dalhausser. "We knew we wereout of the pool, second or third, we had no pressure, it would benice to be the second seed, we just knew we were out of pool, nowthis afternoon is when the tournament really starts." However, it turned out to be the end of their journey to Beijing asthey lost to Nicolai/Lupo 21-16 and 23-21 in the first roundelimination match Friday afternoon. "Today when I saw the draw, when I saw Rogers/Dalhausser, I thoughtmaybe the tournament is over," said Nicolai. "But we played verywell, my partner served fantastic serves and made it very difficultfor their reception." "I'm very happy. It's fantastic! They are maybe the best team inthe world. For us it's fantastic moment," he added. "Now we willstay happy for one or two hours and after that we will think aboutthe next match tomorrow." Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik of Germany upset defending championsAlison Cerutti/Emanuel Rego of Brazil 21-18 and 25-23 in 47 minutesin the showdown between two previously unbeaten teams to win pool Nand a bye in Friday afternoon's first round of the eliminationstage. "It was an interesting game for both teams, I think neither teamplayed their best today, with a lot of mistakes, it's not normal inmen's volleyball," said Erdmann. "At the end it's good to win ofcourse and we win the pool, I'm very happy." Erdmann attributed their second straight win in three weeks overthe Brazilian tandem to strong serving performance from hispartner. "We beat them in Brasilia, so this season we had two winsand no loss against them, it's good for us," he said. "Every gameis different, today my partner made really good float serves whichEmanuel had some problems with. I think this is today' s keypoints." "We'll see which team we play tomorrow. If lucky, we'll have a goodteam to play and everything can open," he added. "There will beonly four (Olympic) qualifying tournaments left after this one, andwe try to play well." Two teams each from the United States and the Netherlands and onefrom Brazil joined Erdmann/Matysik in the men's top 16 withunbeaten record after the conclusion of the men's pool play Fridaymorning, namely third seeds Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil, 18thseeds Daan Spijkers/Emiel Boersma (Netherlands), seventh seedsNicholas Lucena/Matthew Fuerbringer and 11th seeds Jacob Gibb/SeanRosenthal (USA) and eighth seeds Benjamin Insfran/Bruno OscarSchmidt (Brazil). Other preliminary pool winners who secured their berths in the top16 round are Latvia's 17th seeds Alexandrs Samoilous/RuslansSorokins and 20th seeds Martins Plavins/Janis Smedins. Alison/Emanuel recovered soon enough to deliver the 31st seeds JonStiekema and Christiaan Varenhorst of the Netherlands 21-14 and21-17 in 32 minutes in a first round elimination match to stay incontention. "Today it's a different tournament, yesterday it was very hot andtoday it was like cold and the sand is more flat. But we can handleit and we're still in the race," said Emanuel. "I think all theteams need to adapt to the different way to play, but you know,that' s the fun of beach volleyball! Any game, any day can bedifferent." "I think tomorrow there will be the best games for sure, since allthe teams will be more prepared for the changes of climate," headded. Two more teams from Brazil qualified for the top 16 round afterwinning first round elimination matches, namely the second seedsRicardo Alex Costa Santos/Pedro Henrique Cunha and sixth seedsPedro Solberg Salgado/Marcio Henrique Araujo, and Chinese medalhope Wu Penggen/Xu Linyin also stayed in the competition afterbrushing aside fourth seeds Pablo Herrera Allepuz/Adrian GaviraCollado from Spain 21-11, 25-23. The $600,000 Beijing Grand Slam will continue on Saturday withwomen's semifinals and finals as well as two rounds of men'selimination matches. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China 16DUO Mining Hydraulic Drive Hoist Beam , 4DUO Mining Hydraulic Drive Hoist Beam, and more. For more , please visit Mining Heavy Monorail Suspension Line today!
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