{"id":48869,"date":"2019-10-30T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=48869"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:31:08","slug":"mewhirter-and-boag-enter-qinzhou-main-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/mewhirter-and-boag-enter-qinzhou-main-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"MEWHIRTER AND BOAG ENTER QINZHOU MAIN DRAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Qinzhou, China, October 30, 2019 \u2013 The United States\u2019 Travis Mewhirter and Michael Boag registered two victories in the men\u2019s qualification round to enter the main draw of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Qinzhou 3-star on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48871\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7-768x351.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7-1024x468.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/b-7-600x274.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mewhirter and Boag started with a 2-0 (21-16, 21-18) win over Israel\u2019s Sean Faiga and Netanel Amiram Ohana, before securing their spot in the main draw with a three-set comeback victory over Japan\u2019s Yusuke Ishijima and Katsuhiro Shiratori 2-1 (16-21, 21-12, 20-18).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first FIVB World Tour I\u2019ve ever played and the second time Mike (Boag) and I have played together, so to do that against the No.1 seed in the qualifiers is just awesome,\u201d said an ecstatic Mewhirter. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome to come out here and be in my first main draw. It\u2019s the most fun volleyball I\u2019ve played in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the third set, we went up pretty big at 8-4 and then we went out on some opportunities, then we were down. Our opponents had four match points, but Mike was just playing well and aggressively swinging. We stayed really calm and ended on the good side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s Hevaldo Sabino Moreira and Vinicius Rezende Costa Freitas also recorded double victories in qualification. The South American pair defeated China\u2019s Wang Yanwei and Liu Chuangyong 2-0 (21-10, 21-14) and Thailand\u2019s Narongdet Kangkon and Banlue Nakprakhong 2-0 (21-19, 21-7) to clinch the spot to the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s Martin Trans Hansen\/Kristoffer Abell and Mads Rosager\/Jacob Stein Brink, Russia\u2019s Ruslan Bykanov\/Alexander Likholetov and Daniil Kuvichka\/Anton Kislytsyn, France\u2019s Jeremy Silvestre\/Arnold Loiseau and Thailand\u2019s Nuttanon Inkiew\/Sedtawat Padsawud won their respective matches in the second round of qualification.<\/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>Qinzhou, China, October 30, 2019 \u2013 The United States\u2019 Travis Mewhirter and Michael Boag registered two victories in the men\u2019s qualification round to enter the main draw of the FIVB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48870,"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-48869","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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