Karla Borger and Sandra Ittinger of Germany and Esteban and Marco Grimalt of Chile gained the respective titles Sunday on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour Problem in Xiamen, China.
The USA got here up medal-less after Chase Budinger and Miles Evans misplaced within the males’s bronze-medal match.
Second-seeded Borger and Ittinger beat ninth-seeded Swiss Olympians Anouk Verge-Depre and Joana Mader 22-20, 21-14. Within the match for third place, Tenth-seeded Spainards Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno beat eighth-seeded Lithuanians Aine Raupelyte and Monike Paulikiene 21-16, 21-16.
The Grimalts, seeded 18th after getting via the qualifier, gained 17-21, 21-18, 15-9 over Twenty first-seeded Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat of France in a ultimate few would have predicted.
Second-seeded Lukas Pfretzschner and Sven Winter of Germany beat fourth-seeded Budinger and Evans 15-21, 21-15, 15-13.
The respective winners break up $10,000 every. Budinger and Evans took dwelling $6,000.
Two USA males’s pairs gained twice to get via the qualifier, Hagen Smith and Logan Webber and Jordan Hoppe and James Shaw.
Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb had been in the principle draw because the No. 3 seed and went 1-1 in pool play earlier than shedding to seventh-seded Thomas Hodges and Zachery Schubert of Australia within the first spherical of single elimination.
Smith and Webber in flip knocked out Hoppe and Shaw in three earlier than getting swept by Pretzschner and Winter.
Two USA ladies’s pairs obtained via the qualiifer, Kylie Deberg and Hailey Harward and Alaina Chacon and Mariah Whalen. Deberg and Harward went 2-0 in pool play earlier than shedding within the first spherical of single eradicated. Chacon and Whalen went 0-2 in pool play.
The following cease on the Seaside Professional Tour is that this week’s Elite16 in Brasilia, Brazil. USA entries embrace Budinger and Evans, Crabb and Brunner and Miles Partain and Andy Benesh on the boys’s aspect; and on the ladies’s Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes and Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss.