Four RI teams fail to make volleyball quarterfinals
Four RI teams fail to make volleyball quarterfinals
JAKARTA (JP): Four Indonesian teams failed to graduate to the
quarterfinals after losing in the elimination round of the ninth
leg of the Keramik Diamond Men's Beach World Volleyball
Championships on an artificial-beach court at the Senayan tennis
complex.
Indonesian Olympians Muchammad Nurmufid/Markoji Markoji, who
intended to improve their world ranking from 24th to 17th, lost
to seventh seeded Sinjin Smith/Carl Henkel 4-15 in their first
match. Smith is dubbed the King of the Beach since he developed
beach volleyball.
In their second match, Nurmufid/Markoji, who qualified for the
main draw, were eliminated by qualifying round winners from
Australia Victor Anfilloff/Jeremy Richardson 8-15.
Both Nurmufid and Markoji blamed their loss on their lack of
experience.
Another Indonesian team, which qualified for the main draw,
Irilkhum Sofana/Agus Salim lost to fifth seeded Brazilian duo of
Paulo Emilio Silva Azevedo/Paulo Roberto Paulao Moreira da Co 11-
15.
Sofana/Salim lost to Russian pair Dmitry Areshkin/Michel
Koushniriov 5-15 in their second match.
Two Indonesian teams, which passed the qualifying round, also
failed to make the quarterfinals.
Iwan Sumoyo/Anjas Asmara, gold medalists at the just-completed
14th National Games, lost to third seeded Jan Kvalheim/Bjrn
Maaseide 9-15.
Iwan/Anjas then lost to Martin Laciga/Bernhard Vesti of
Switzerland 8-15 in their second match.
Indonesia's last hope Supri Supriano/Alfinus Oban Seleng
failed to make the next round after being eliminated by fourth
seeded Rogrio Par Ferreira de Souza/Guillerme Luiz Marquez 4-
15. Supri/Alfinus also lost to Australians Gernot Leitner/Oliver
Stamm 3-15.
The Centennial Olympic silver medalists Mike Dodd/Whit
Whitmarsh of the USA surprisingly lost to Kvalheim/Maaseide 9-15
in the second round.
Olympic bronze medalist Mark Heese/John Child, who are the top
seeds, cruised to today's quarterfinals after beating Tom
Englen/Figge Petersson 15-9.
The quarterfinals will begin today, which will be aired live
by privately-owned TPI at 03:00 p.m. (yan)