Ross & Hughes reach the final in Moscow
MOSCOW, Russia, August 11, 2018 – Summer Ross and Sara Hughes
capped their first season together by reaching the FIVB Beach
Volleyball World Tour Moscow 4-Star final on Saturday.
The US pair started quickly against Germany’s Julia Sude and
Chantal Laboureur and kept their energy levels up to the end to
finish with a 2-0 (23-21, 21-14) victory.
They will now play Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda ‘Duda’ Santos
Lisboa in Sunday’s final, after the Brazilians defeated
Switzerland’s Tanja Huberli and Nina Betschart 2-0 (21-14,
21-19).
“That team is so great and they are fierce competitors,” Hughes
said. “Summer and I went out and our goal was to play our best
and our hardest, and that is what I think we did today.”
Hughes and Ross made their World Tour debut as a team at The
Hague 4-Star in January. They quickly established themselves as
tricky opponents who were able to reach the quarterfinals before
breaking through to the medal positions in July when they won
bronze at the Espinho 4-Star.
For Ross it will be the second season in a row that she leaves
Russia’s capital with a medal, after she and Brooke Sweat won
silver in 2017.
“The secret is just having fun and playing together,” Ross said.
“We are just enjoying ourselves out here and I love playing with
Sarah.” |