{"id":36959,"date":"2019-03-10T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=36959"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:03:18","slug":"laird-and-palmer-claim-home-win-at-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/laird-and-palmer-claim-home-win-at-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"LAIRD AND PALMER CLAIM HOME WIN AT SYDNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Sydney, Australia, March 10, 2019 \u2013 Australia\u2019s Nicole Laird and Becchara Palmer won the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Sydney 3-star women\u2019s gold medal in front of their passionate home fans at Manly Beach on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Laird and Palmer capped the Sydney 3-star tournament with a hard-earned 2-1 (21-19, 16-21, 15-13) win over the United States\u2019 Betsi Flint and Emily Day in the gold medal match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cIt was exhausting,\u201d said Palmer on coming from qualification to winning the final match. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely the long way to do it, but as a new team it is important that we play more matches like these.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cWe said from the very beginning that we are going to learn and evolve through this competition and we stayed true to that. We\u2019ve squeezed the life out of this tournament in terms of matches we have to play and we have come out pretty well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The Australian pair only dropped one match in the pool play round but showed their commitment by winning their succeeding matches to reach the top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cThe only thing we had in our corner was the ability to do it point by point,\u201d Laird said. \u201cIt was necessary for us to ride the highs as much as you don\u2019t want to ride the lows, so we tried to be steady in the way we were going about things by being patient on defence, being strong and clinical with our sideouts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Australia now has a total of 47 World Tour medals \u2013 10 gold, 11 silver and 24 bronze medals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">After losing the semifinal match to eventual gold medal winners Laird and Palmer, Brooke Sweat and Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States bounced back with a 2-0 (21-19, 21-19) win in the bronze medal match against Wang Fan and Xia Xinyi of China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cWe played a little bit tight in our first match and that got into our way a little bit,\u201d Walsh Jennings said. \u201cBut we just wanted to win and used that hunger to take the next match.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Sweat and Walsh Jennings are playing in their fourth FIVB World Tour event together in their first season as partners. 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