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[Surlympics 261]

Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson beat top ranked Brazilians Ana Patricia and Duda in straight sets to move to the semis in Doha !! 

[Josh 6,470]

51 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson beat top ranked Brazilians Ana Patricia and Duda in straight sets to move to the semis in Doha !! 

Good for them but hardly surprising given how much Duda/AP struggled to teams levels below them in prior games. 

[Josh 6,470]

Mel/Brandie through to the gold medal match at the Doha Elite 16, defeating Latvia 2-1! (21-17, 20-22, 15-12)

 

They were 10-15 down in set one, and 2-6 down in set three but still managed to turn it around!

[Josh 6,470]

Mel/Brandie lose the gold medal match 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) at the Doha Elite 16 to Brazil’s Barbora/Carol. Wasn’t able to watch it as the power went out a couple hours before(due to extremely windy conditions)

Edited March 9 by Josh

[Josh 6,470]

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec through to the semifinals at the Recife Challenge! Sam Schachter/Dan Dearing bow out in the quarterfinals, getting demolished by a Cuban team that I thought they had a solid chance at defeating. Both finishes should be good enough to add useful points towards their Olympic Ranking. 
 

For Dearing/Schachter it’s a 5th useable finish, while for Bansley/Bukovec it’s a 2nd.

Edited March 24 by Josh

[Josh 6,470]

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec win silver at the Recife Challenge, losing in straight sets to a very strong Latvian team that was 4th at Tokyo 2020.

[Josh 6,470]

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec with a quarterfinal finish at the Saquarema Challenge. Very disappointing week for Sam Schachter/Dan Dearing, losing both of their pool play matches. 

[Josh 6,470]

Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec through to the semifinals at the Guadalajara Challenge, including a big straight sets win over #1 seeds Huberli/Brunner in the round of 16!

[Josh 6,470]

Bronze for Sophie Bukovec/Heather Bansley at the Guadalajara Challenge! Lost an extremely tight match to Swiss #3 Bobner/Verge Depre in the semifinals (they’re still a really good team, so this was far from a bad result) with the third set going to overtime, and eventually finishing 20-18 in favor of them. Rebounded in the bronze medal match however, defeating Ittlinger/Borger 2-0 and a dominant second set (21-14) at that. 

[Josh 6,470]

Another Elite16 5th for Humana-Parades/Wilkerson in Tepic.