{"id":41987,"date":"2019-05-23T23:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=41987"},"modified":"2019-05-23T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T23:37:40","slug":"ageba-and-taira-cruise-to-main-draw-at-boracay-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/ageba-and-taira-cruise-to-main-draw-at-boracay-open\/","title":{"rendered":"AGEBA AND TAIRA CRUISE TO MAIN DRAW AT BORACAY OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Boracay, Philippines, May 23, 2019 \u2013 Japanese duo Yuya Ageba and Nobuaki Taira defeated Ukrainian pair Sviatoslav Karvatsky and Anton Didyk 2-0 (21-13, 21-18) to secure one of the four available spots in the main draw of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Boracay Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41989\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2-24-600x249.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ageba and Taira earned a bye in the first round, but easily delivered a straight-set win to move to the main draw, joining three other Japanese pairs headed by top seeds Jumpei Ikeda and Katsuhiro Shiratori.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an easy win for us,\u201d Ageba said. \u201cWe had a good side-out game and that helped us in this match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to win the tournament and we will do it step by step. We are a new partnership so we have a lot to improve on in each match but we will do our best to achieve our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kitti Duangjinda and Dunwinit Kaewsai is the other Asian pair that made it to the main draw after rallying to a 2-1 (18-21, 21-19, 15-8) win over Austria\u2019s Florian Ertl and Michael Muraer in the first round and winning in straight sets (21-14, 21-15) against Norway\u2019s Emil Ofstaas and Christian Jorgensen Ruud in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>However, the other Austrian and Norwegian pairs collected two wins to progress to the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s Moritz Fabian Kindl and Mathias Seiser beat Sweden\u2019s Peter Lundgren and Jakob Wijk Tegenrot in three sets and Australia\u2019s Glenn Piper and Bo Sodeberg in straight sets, while Norway\u2019s Ruben Olai Lund Lovli and Kjetil Tellnes routed Russia\u2019s Vsevold Bobrikov and Vladislav Mikhalev and Chinese Taipei\u2019s Hsu Chen Wei and Wu Shin-Shian both in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boracay, Philippines, May 23, 2019 \u2013 Japanese duo Yuya Ageba and Nobuaki Taira defeated Ukrainian pair Sviatoslav Karvatsky and Anton Didyk 2-0 (21-13, 21-18) to secure one of the four&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,100,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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