{"id":42033,"date":"2019-05-25T04:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=42033"},"modified":"2019-05-25T04:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:19:02","slug":"top-seeds-ikeda-and-shiratori-off-to-good-start-in-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/top-seeds-ikeda-and-shiratori-off-to-good-start-in-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP SEEDS IKEDA AND SHIRATORI OFF TO GOOD START IN BORACAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Boracay, Philippines, May 24, 2019 \u2013 Japanese top seeds Jumpei Ikeda and Katsuhiro Shiratori won both their matches in the pool play round to advance straight into the quarterfinals of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Boracay Open.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42035\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38-1024x556.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1-38-600x326.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ikeda and Shiratori dictated the tempo against the host nation\u2019s Mike Abria and Jade Becaldo to win 2-0 (21-15, 21-14) in their opening match on Friday, then followed it up with a 2-1 (18-21, 21-18, 16-14) win to take pole position in Pool A.<\/p>\n<p>Ikeda first teamed-up with Olympian Shiratori at the 3-star event in Sydney and they are now playing in their fifth World Tour event. Their best finish so far is in fifth place at the Goteborg 1-star event in Sweden last April.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s Maximilian Trummer and Simon Baldauf, Thailand\u2019s Kitti Duangjinda and Dunwinit Kaewsai and Chinese Taipei\u2019s Hsu Chen-Wei and Wu Shin-Shian also picked-up two wins in pool play to move to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Trummer and Baldauf prevailed in tiebreakers against Thailand\u2019s Narongdet Kangkon and Banlue Nakprakhong 2-1 (21-13, 19-21, 15-13) and Singapore\u2019s Kingsley Tay and Mark Shen Fan Yang 2-1 (21-11, 21-23, 15-9) to win Pool B.<\/p>\n<p>Thai duo Kitti and Dunwinit and Chinese Taipei pair Hsu and Wu swept all their matches to dominate in Pool C and D, respectively.<\/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 24, 2019 \u2013 Japanese top seeds Jumpei Ikeda and Katsuhiro Shiratori won both their matches in the pool play round to advance straight into the quarterfinals of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42034,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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