Americans upset by
home pair in the battle for the bronze
DOHA, Qatar, March
10, 2018 – Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan delighted
the home crowd by becoming the first Qatari team to win a World
Tour medal on home sand when they defeated the USA’s Phil
Dalhausser and Nick Lucena 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 15-13) in the
bronze medal match.
The pair played two
tournaments together in 2014 before they went their separate
ways, but since they reunited at the end of 2017 their
combination of Cherif’s prowess at the net and Ahmed Tijan’s
agility at the back has allowed them to develop into a
competitive pairing.
Dutch Alexander
Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen won their first FIVB Beach
Volleyball World Tour gold of 2018 when they defeated Russia’s
Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Igor Velichko in the 4-Star KATARA Beach
Volleyball Cup gold medal match on Saturday.
The Dutch pair fought
back from losing the first set to beat the Russians 2-1 (20-22,
21-14, 15-11).
“We’ve known them
since last week when we played them in Fort Lauderdale, they are
a new team and a young team and they played amazingly this whole
tournament,” Brouwer said.
Brouwer and Meeuwsen began the year by winning bronze in front
of their home fans at the 4-star Dela Beach Open in The Hague. |