Beach volleyball players Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Jānis Šmēdiņš lost their first-round elimination tournament in the four-star stage of the World Tour on Friday in Gstaad, Switzerland, and were not in the quarterfinals, according to the organizers. Tīna Graudiņa / Anastasija Kravčenoka will play in the women’s quarterfinals later on Friday.
Samoilov / Šmēdiņš conceded in the eighth final with 0: 2 (13:21, 18:21) to the world champions Russians Oleg Stoyanovsky / Vyacheslav Krasilnikov.
The Grail / Kravchenok elimination tournament will start against the American Kelly Claire / Sarah Sponsor.
It has already been reported that both Samoilovs / Šmēdiņš and Graudiņa / Kravčenoka won both games in the group and immediately entered the second round of elimination or the eighth final. The winners of the groups were immediately in the second round of the elimination or eighth final, while the last remaining teams ended the tournament. The other two teams in the group ended up in the first round of elimination.
It has already been reported that the other participants of the Tokyo Olympic Games Mārtiņš Pļaviņš / Edgars Točs lost in the first round of elimination and finished the tournament in the shared 17th place.
Marta Ozoliņa and Luīze Skrastiņa also started in Switzerland, which did not go beyond the first qualification round.
The last major tournament before the Tokyo Olympics takes place in Gstaad, but the battle for the Olympic tickets ended earlier, leaving Samoilov / Šmēdiņš behind the line.
CONTEXT:
In the world tour, competitions are divided into one- to five-star tournaments according to their importance. Both the number of rating points to be obtained and the prize fund of the competition are tied to the number of stars in the tournament.
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