XIAMEN Dame Vans Old Skool Lyserød Hvid Udsalg , China, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins from Latvia added a third win on Thursday to top their group as men's pool plays came to a close at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Xiamen Open.
In SamoilovsSmedins' final pool match they overcame Austria's Alexander HuberRobin Seidl 2-1 (21-16, 19-21, 15-11) and the win places them top of pool A allowing them to enter directly round two of the single elimination tournament on Friday.
The No. 1 seeds came out strongly at the beginning of the match sending HuberSeidl to every part of the court. Refusing to go without a fight, the Austrian pair stepped up the pace in the second set while SamoilovsSmedins made some unforced errors. Trailing by 20-18, Samoilovs Smedins saved a set point but then a drop shot by Huber ended the set. The Latvians took the early initative in the tie-breaker and held on to win.
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In Pool B, USA's Nicholas LucenaPhlip Dalhausser also advanced to the last 16 at the Xiamen Open after fending off Jean-Baptiste DaguerreYannick Salvetti of France in a long battle ending 2-1 (18-21, 21-14, 15-9).
The first set saw good skill at the net from the French pair Vans Old Skool Reissue Hvid Old Skool Vans Denmark , but Lucena's accurate setting gave way to Dalhausser as the USA hit back to take the second set. Both teams continued to fight hard in the tiebreaker. With LucenaDalhausser leading at 9-7, the match was halted for about three minutes for a medical timeout after Daguerre showed signs of dehydration in hot and humid weather. After the match resumed, the French team could hardly pose serious challenge to their opponents.
"It's very hot, maybe the hottest place that I've ever been. But it's a good game. We gonna play tomorrow, hopefully we will recover," said Lucena.
"It's basically about who wants more Billige Vans Old Skool Canvas Sort Hvid , who is doing the hardest in this heat," said Dalhausser. "France is a good team. They played well until everyone is super tired. It doesn't really become volleyball, it just becomes kind of whoever are the toughest, bascially like who wants more."
Lucena and Dalhausser are playing here only their fourth World Tour event as a team together since 2005. They reached the final at both the Long Beach Grand Slam and the Sochi Open before coming to Xiamen.
In a thrilling clash of Asian teams, China's Li ZhuoxinLi Jian were pushed hard by Takumi TakahashiJunki Hatabe of Japan before winning 2-1 (21-19, 13-21 nike cortez danmark , 18-16). To the loud cheers from local crowds, the Chinese pair saved three match points before closing it out on the first of their own.
"We played with a lot of patience, especially in the tie-breaker. That's the key to our victory today," said Li Jian.
Li Jian and Li Zhuoxin, who started to pair up last month, will be joined by another Chinese team Gao PengLi Yang in the knockout stage. GaoLi won their last pool match on Thursday after Qatar's Jefferson Santos PereiraCherif Younousse forfeited due to injury.
The double-gender $150 nike air huarache tilbud ,000 FIVB Xiamen Open is the final point's event on the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar. The event is being held at the Guanyinshan Gold Beach in the Siming District of the Fujian Province. The winning teams in each gender will share the $11,000 first-place prize.
Maestro Lorin Maazel leads a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, on Aug 2, 2012. Photo Provided to China Daily
The last time Boston Symphony Orchestra played a concert in China was 35 years ago. It will be back in May. Jack Freifelder traces the journey.
A lot has sure changed since 1979. Tie-dye and bell-bottoms are largely a novelty now, but they were all the rage when the Boston Symphony Orchestra last played a concert in China 35 years ago. Even the iconic Zhongshan suits that dotted the streets in China several decades ago have taken a backseat to more contemporary fashion. But the BSO's Larry Wolf still remembers the fad's heyday well. "I was 31 on the first trip to China nike air max 97 sort ," Wolf says in an interview. "I tried to be a tourist and it was all extremely interesting. I remember the streets, a sea of bicycles and the blue Mao jackets that were just everywhere."
"Being an American I was just an object of a positive, childlike curiosity," adds Wolf, an assistant principal double bass player with the BSO. "People wondered if I stubbed my toe in New York whether I would feel the same pain they did with a stubbed toe in Beijing. The answer is, of course nike air max 97 blå , yes."
The BSO is set to tour China and Japan later this year with a series of seven concerts over a 10-day period from May 1 to 11, the first trip the BSO has made to China since its historic tour in 1979 under the direction of Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa.
At the end of the BSO's 2013-14 season, Maestro Lorin Maazel-who first debuted with the BSO in December 1960-will lead the orchestra during this year's trip to China and Japan, which will feature concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tokyo.
The BSO became the first orchestra from the United States to visit China nike air max 97 hvid , following the signing of the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, on Jan 1, 1979.
Boston's main orchestral body plays at Symphony Hall-a building designated a US National Historic Landmark by the US government in 1999-and the company is currently in its 133rd season of performances.
Mark Volpe, the managing director with the BSO, says, "there's a real interest in China and Japan" because the level of music-making there is "incredibly high".
"I've never been to China with the orchestra vans slip on hvid , so this will be a first for me," Volpe says.