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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.”