FIVB: Sanya Qualification Round (LIVE Video)

Geeske Banck of Germany digs a ball during country quota. Photo: fivb.org

There is a twelve hour time difference between Sanya, China and Kill on Two in Toronto.  This is great for doing the math on the time zone differences, but isn't that great when... actually wanting to watch a match.  With Marie and Annie dropping out of FIVB Sanya, Canadians are left with three teams still in the tournament.  In the first round, team Rodrigue-MacTavish will face off against the 38th seed from Austraila, Marie-Kelly.  Team Valjas-Whitaker are matched up against the 30th seeded French team of Longuet-Larche.  Liz Maloney and Heather Bansley got a bye in the first round and will play a team from the Netherlands in the second round later on in the day.

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First Round

First round matches will take place April 27th, at 10:00 a.m. local time which is April 26th 11:00 p.m. EST or 8:00 p.m. PST.

	Bansley-Maloney	vs.	BYE
	Rodrigue-MacTavish	vs.		Marie-Kelly
	Valjas-Whitaker	vs.		Longuet-Larche

Second Round

Second round matches will take place at different times if our Canadian pairs go on, but Liz and Heather's match (because they got a bye) will be at April 27th, at 1:00 p.m. local time which is April 26th 1:00 a.m. EST or 10 p.m. PST.

Bansley-Maloney

vs.

Kadijk R.-Mooren

Have any predictions on the first round matches for the Canadian teams?  Are there other teams that we didn't mention that you are following?  Let us know in the comments.

Update on 2011-04-27 12:50 by Cameron Kerr

After three rounds of qualification, the three women's duos from Canada were all eliminated.  They all made it past the first round defeating Australia and France but came up short in the second round with two of our teams losing to two Italian teams.  Team Bansley/Maloney made it past round two, but their main draw hopes came up short losing in the third round to the Russians 2-1.

First Round

	Bansley-Maloney	vs.	BYE
	Rodrigue-MacTavish	def		Marie-Kelly	2-0 (21-18)(21-12)
	Valjas-Whitaker	def		Longuet-Larche	2-0 (21-17)(21-15)

Second Round

	Bansley-Maloney	def		Kadijk R.-Mooren	2-1 (19-121)(21-19)(15-12)
	Giombini-Rosso	def		Rodrigue-MacTavish	2-0 (21-16)(21-12)
	Gioria-Momoli	def		Valjas-Whitaker	2-1 (21-17)(22-24)(16-14)

Third Round

Khomyakova-Vozakova

def

Bansley-Maloney

2-1 (21-17)(12-21)(15-10)