Asian Video games: Dij Rodriguez, Gen Eslapor barge into seaside volley quarterfinal

FILE – The Philippines’ Dij Rodriguez and Gen Eslapor within the 2021 AVC Asian Senior Seaside Volleyball Championships. AVC PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Dij Rodriguez and Gen Eslapor turned the final Filipinos standing within the Asian Video games seaside volleyball after advancing to the quarterfinals on Sunday at Ningbo Banbianshan Seaside Volleyball Centre in Hangzhou, China.

Rodriguez and Eslapor eradicated Macau’s On Leng Leong and Weng Sam Regulation, 21-15, 21-15, to prevail of their Spherical of 16 duel.

The Philippine girls’s seaside volleyball pair battles Japan’s Sayaka Mizoe and Miki Ishii within the quarterfinal on Monday.

Ishii and Mizoe knocked out Kazakhstan’s Anastassiya Ukolova and Alina Rachenko, 21-8, 21-7, to remain unbeaten in 5 video games. 

The Nationals are seeing motion within the Asiad for the primary time since Diane Pascua and Heidi Ilustre’s seventh-place end within the 2006 version in Doha.

First-timers Eslapor and  Rodriguez, the lone holdover of the two-time Southeast Asian Video games bronze medalist staff, may have an opportunity to surpass the earlier end in the event that they upset Japan within the quarterfinal.

Rodriguez and Eslapor, who completed second in Pool A with a 3-1 report, are the remaining nationwide seaside volleyball squad in competition after the lads’s staff and the opposite girls’s pair Khylem Harl Progella and Grydelle Joanice Matibag acquired eradicated by Thailand within the spherical of 16.

The younger tandem of Progella and Matibag ended their first Asiad look with a 16-21, 23-25 loss to Thailand’s Woranatchayakorn Phirachayakrailert and Charanrutwad Patcharamainaruebhorn.

Progella and Matibag completed with a 2-2 report in Pool B as the previous’s efficiency gave the impression to be affected by the again ache she felt final Friday once they withdrew throughout their final group part recreation towards Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee and Taravadee Naraphornrapat of Thailand.

In the meantime, James Buytrago and Jude Garcia put up a gallant stand after forcing Indonesia’s Ashfiya Mohammad and Bintang Akbar to a decider but it surely wasn’t sufficient as they acquired booted out with a 17-21, 21-16, 6-15 loss within the males’s spherical of 16.

Buytrago and Garcia, who completed with a 1-1 report in Pool A, was the lone males’s staff to advance to the knockout stage as Jaron Requinton and Ranran Abdilla didn’t make it with a winless Pool B marketing campaign, dropping to Qatar and Indonesia.