Duo's from Brazil picked up the gold and bronze medals while Germany claimed the silver medal Saturday, concluding the men’s competition at the $US380,000 Shanghai Open presented by City Beach. The Chinese port city is hosting the international Beach Volleyball community this week in the Jinshan District for the seventh-straight year.
In the gold medal finale, fifth-seeded Pedro Salgado and Harley Marques of Brazil defeated Germany’s fourth-seeded Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann in three sets, 21-15, 13-21 and 17-15 in 62 minutes. With the victory Harley captured his fourth straight Shanghai Open gold medal and his third with Salgado. Harley won last year here with Alison Cerutti, who partners Emanuel Rego this season. Salgado and Harley now have a perfect 10-0 career record in FIVB gold medal matches.
With only one weeks practice ahead of the event - as they played with different partners last year and at the season-opener two weeks ago - Salgado and Harley have now helped Brazil extend its lead in gold medal matches to 17-7 again teams from Germany.
Despite their two-set loss to Brink and Reckermann in the third round, Salgado and Harley turned things around from the start of the gold medal match. In the first set, Salgado and Harley jumped to early leads of 3-1 and 8-3 before the Germans closed it to 10-8 and then again to 16-14 after the Brazilians had taken a 15-8 lead. With two aces and two strategically placed shots by Harley, sending the Brazilians to a 20-14 lead, they ended the set on following a Harley kill off of Reckermann’s block attempt for the 21-15 final score. Harley had three aces in the first set.
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