A strong field is lining up for the AVC Beach Tour “Hamrahe Avval” Bandar Abbas Open between November 7 and 11, 2022 in Bandar Abbas, a port city and capital of Hormozgān Province on the southern coast of Iran, with 21 teams ready to strut their stuff in the men’s only tournament.
The five-day meet serves as a warm-up competition of the participating teams in their preparation for the “PPTV” 2022 Asian “Hamrahe Avval” Senior Men’s Beach Volleyball Championship at the same competition venues from November 14 to 18, 2022.
A total of 21 pairings confirmed their participation in the tough test comprising four from the host country, three each rom Australia and China, two apiece from Thailand, Japan, Qatar, Hong Kong China and Kazakhstan and one from India. The participating teams have been divided into Pools A, B, C, D and E with three teams each and Pools F, G and H with two teams apiece.
Teams will compete in the pool round-robin preliminaries from November 7 to 9, with only top two teams from each pool advancing to the Round of last 16 in the November 9 afternoon. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be held on November 10, while the finals (bronze-medal and gold-medal matches) will take place on November 11, the final day of the tournament.
The preliminary inquiry was held on November 5, while the Technical Meeting, presided by Technical Delegate Mr Jayaraman Srinivasan from India and Referee Delegate Mr Nader Ansari from Iran, took place the following day in Persian Gulf Hotel in Bandar Abbas, with participating players attending to hear the rules and regulations and detailed information of the competition. Draws and seedings had also been conducted during the meeting.
Six matches will be contested on the opening day on November 7, with Qatari fifth seeds Binaziz Elmajid Saifeddine/Mahmoud Essam Ahmed taking on 21st-seeds Wong Ka Yun/Tse Kin Wang from Hong Kong, China in Pool E and 7th seeds Yoshiumi Hasegawa/Masato Kurasaka of Japan playing Australian 10th-seeds Solomon Bushby/James Takken in Pool G and Iranian top seeds Abolhamed Mirzaali/Arash Vakili facing 17th-seeds Naresh Tumpera/Raju Krishnam from India in Pool A.
Arash Vakili is a highly-experienced player who partnered Bahman Salemi to compete in may Asian and world-level competitions including the 2019 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in Bandar Torkaman, where they captured the title on home soil.
Also competing on the very first day of the tournament are Chinese veterans…
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