The US pairing of April Ross and Kerri Walsh secured the top position at the Moscow Grand Slam
last week. In the next run, the duo seems right on track for another gold medal in the ongoing Berlin Smart Grand Slam.
In the pool matches, April Ross/ Kerri Walsh completely white-washed and finished on the top level. They received a a forfeit from fellow Americans Pavlik/Fopma in their opening pool match and scored 2-0 (21-12, 25-23) win over Polish team Brzostek/Kolosinka on Wednesday.
They finished the final round robin match in straight sets and defeated Australia’s Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy 2-0 (21-15, 21-15).
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In the pool matches, April Ross/ Kerri Walsh completely white-washed and finished on the top level. They received a a forfeit from fellow Americans Pavlik/Fopma in their opening pool match and scored 2-0 (21-12, 25-23) win over Polish team Brzostek/Kolosinka on Wednesday.
The winning American duo successfully advance to the second knockout round unbeaten.
The Berlin smart Grand Slam
continues on Friday with the final pool round and first knockout round for the
men and the first and second elimination rounds for the women.
Berlin is hosting a FIVB
World Tour women’s event for the 9th time and a men’s event for the
15th time. After the $800.000 Berlin smart Grand Slam the FIVB World Tour continues its seven-event swing through Europe.
There are three more
double-gender FIVB Grand Slams on the European continent: the FIVB Stavanger
Grand Slam in Norway (June 24-28), the FIVB Gstaad Grand Slam in Switzerland
(July 8-13) and finally the FIVB Transavia Grand Slam, played in three
different cities in the Netherlands (July 15-20), but based in The Hague.
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