AlKass Digital
Doha, Qatar- Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan started their AVC Aspire Beach Volleyball Qatar Master 2018 campaign at Aspire Park with a win, yesterday.
The World No 10 pair defeated Thai pair of Kitti Duangjinda and Surin Jongklang 21-7, 21-11 in their opening Pool ‘A’ match in just 24 minutes.
“We’re going match by match. We’re not thinking about far too long. This is the last event of the year and this is the last piece for our cake. We’ll try to do as good as possible to grab it,” said Younousse.
The No. 1 Qatar team will next face Oman’s Ali al-Shibli and Hood al-Jalaboubi today before the knock-out phase begins.
Younousse and Tijan were the only Qataris to win their first match, while ‘B’ team of Assam Mahmoud and Tamer Abdelrasoul lost to Iranians Rahman Raoufi and Abdolhamed Mirzaali after winning the first set. Nasser Ahmed al-Meer and Hamad al-Kuwari were outclassed by Thailand’s Banlue Nakprakhong and Sedtawat Padsawud 17-21, 7-21. Later, Mahmoud and Abdelrasoul went down fighting to Kazakhstan’s Sergey Bogatu and Dmitriy Yakovlev 0-2.
Results
Group stage
Cherif/Ahmed (Qat) beat Kitti/ Surin (Tha) 21-7, 21-11 (24 min)
Gottsu/Ageba (Jpn) beat Ali/ Hood (Omn) 21-11, 21-8 (28 min)
Durant/ Schumann (Aus) beat Sidorenko/Dyachenko (Kaz) 1:01 hours)
Raoufi/ Mirzaali (Irn) beat Assam/ Tamer (Qat) 18-21, 21-17, 15-12 (57 min)
Vakili/ Salemi (Irn) beat Mazin/ Nouh (Omn) 21-14, 21-19 (32 min)
Banlue/ Sedtawat (Tha) beat Nasser/ Hamad (Qat) 21-17, 21-7 (28 min)
McHugh/ Schubert (Aus) beat Bogatu/ Yakovlev (Kaz) 21-16, 21-18 (39 min)