Beach volleyball

Sensation! Hammarberg & Berger defeat Olympic 5.

Timo Hammarberg/Tim Berger(Bild: GEPA)

The up-and-coming Timo Hammarberg/Tim Berger show off their skills at the Hamburg Elite 16 beach volleyball tournament!

On Wednesday, the young Austrians qualified with victories over France's Arthur Canet/Teo Rotar and England's Javier and Joaquin Bello, and on Thursday they started the main draw with a 2-0 (17,18) win over the Brazilian Olympic fifth-placed team Evandro/Arthur. The ÖVV sisters Dorina and Ronja Klinger also got off to a successful start.

If they win their group, they would go straight through to the quarter-finals
At the Olympic Games in Paris, Julian Hörl/Alexander Horst were defeated by Evandro/Arthur, and now the Austrians had their revenge, so to speak. This means that the red-white-red youngsters have a good chance of reaching the intermediate round. To do so, the U21 runners-up must finish second or third in Group C after Friday's matches against Italy's Samuele Cottafava/Paolo Nicolai and Norway's Hendrik Mol/Mathias Berntsen. If they win the group, they would go straight through to the quarter-finals.

While other ÖVV pairs had not successfully completed qualification, the Klinger siblings had qualified for the main competition of an Elite 16 event for the first time thanks to their ranking. They secured a 2-0 (13,12) win against Maria Gonzalez/Allanis Navas from Puerto Rico, but were narrowly beaten 2-1 (18,-16,-13) by Finland's Niina Ahtiainen/Taru Lahti. The most difficult opponents in Pool A await on Friday with the German European champions Svenja Müller/Cinja Tillmann.