17-SEPTEMBER-2012
PORTUGUESE TEAMS LAND 9TH
IN THE WORLD UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIP

Joana Resende/Tânia Oliveira, 2012 National Championship runner-up, and Januário Silva/Sebastião Alves, land a 9th place in the 6th World Universities Beach Volleyball Championhsip, held in the brazilian city of Maceió.

In the Main Draw, Resende/Oliveira beat Chinese Taipei Liu/Wu (2-0: 21-12 e 21-15), and Russian Ryabova/Ushkova, (2-0: 27-25 e 21-18).
They lost however to the Brazilian Julia/Luana (0-2: 17-21 e 11-21), and to Chinese Xu/Huang (0-2: 16-21 e 16-21). [Results]

Also in the Main Draw, Alves/Silva beat Saudi Arabian Alamri e Aldawari by 2-0 (21-12 e 21-13) and lost to the Spanish Marco/Garcia (0-2: 11-21 e 18-21) and to the Canadians Pedlow /O'Gorman (0-2: 13-21 e 15-21). [Results]

Women North American team Ross/Day and Men German team Dolinger/Schroder were the winners of this event.

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