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Top seeded Todd Rogers and PhilipDalhausser of the United States received a big blow on the firstday of men's Main Draw at the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCHWorld Tour Beijing Grand Slam on Thursday, losing to Latvia's 17thseeds Alexandrs Samoilous/Ruslans Sorokins in straight sets. Dropping their first opening pool J match against Germany's 16thseeds Eric Koreng/David Klemperer 2-0, the Latvian duo hammeredRogers/Dalhausser 21-14 and 21-17 and sent the Americans to an 1-1win-loss record. "We fought till the end and it' s really great result, it' s reallynice to remember this time," said Sorokins. "Tomorrow we will havea very important game and we'll concentrate on this game and try todo our best." The well-deserved victory came in the right time forSamoilous/Sorokins, who are vying for the tickets to the 2012London Olympic Games. "We are still fighting, so it's reallyimportant to play well in every match," Sorokins added. "There areonly five tournaments left and we are really close with four tofive teams, it's pretty difficult. We'll try our best." Samoilous/Sorokins' compatriots Martins Plavins/Janis Smedins alsoproduced an upset as the 20th seeds beat Spain's fourth seeds PabloHerrera Allepuz/Adrian Gavira Collado 23-21, 21-15 in 38 minutesfor their second win in a row while Germany's 22nd seeds JuliusBrink/Sebastian Fuchs worn out Brazil's sixth seeds Marcio HenriqueAraujo/Pedro Solberg Salgado 21-17, 15-21, 15-12 in 61 minutes."They are a very good team, better than us, I don't know why theylost," said Plavins. Three tandems from Brazil, namely event title-holders AlisonCerutti/Emanuel Rego, second seeds Ricardo Santos/Pedro HenriqueCunha and eighth seeds Benjamin Insfran/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, pickedup a pair of wins to take the lead in respective groups. Ranked fifth in the 32-team Main Draw, Alison/Emanuel held offEstonia's 28th seeds Karl Jaani/Rivo Vesik 24-22 and 28-26 beforedowning 21st seeds Sascha Heyer/Sebastian Chevallier fromSwitzerland 21-15 and 21-18. "It feels great to come back to Beijing. The first match was verytough against Estonia, they were more in rhythm than us, theydidn't make many mistakes, consistent and steady, while we made alot of mistakes," said Emanuel. "This is the part to improve and weneed to learn how to play difficult matches." Emanuel eyed a repeat of the title-winning feat from last year,while he predicted that the contention for the gold medal would beharder. "Definitely! But this year it's a little bit harder, because theteams are more prepared than last year. Everybody is focused to dotheir best and to improve their preparations for the LondonOlympics," he added. "It's very hot, the sand is very nice to play,very soft. Every team can play their best here." Other teams unbeaten after two rounds of the pool play in the men'sMain Draw are seventh seeds Nicholas Lucena/Matthew Fuerbringer and11th seeds Jacob Gibb/Sean Rosenthal of the United States, thirdseeds Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil and 18th seeds DaanSpijkers/Emiel Boersma from the Netherlands, China's tenth seeds WuPenggen/Xu Linyin and Germany's 12th seeds Jonathan Erdmann/KayMatysik. Thirty-two teams are playing a single round robin in eight groupswith top three finishers from each group to advance to the 24-teamknockout stage. The men's round robin will continue on Friday withthe second and third round matches. The $600,000 Beijing Grand Slam is the second of eight FIVB BeachVolleyball Swatch World Tour Grand Slams of the year with theChinese capital welcoming back international beach volleyball forthe second straight year since the 2008 Olympic Games. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Rivet Nut Gun , China Bulbtite Rivet for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Bulbtite Rivet.
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