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ConocoPhillips Grand Slam Women’s Pool Play Schedule Set
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STAVANGER, NORWAY, June 27, 2006 - The women’s Main Draw field for the US$580,000 ConocoPhillips Grand Slam is set with eight Beach Volleyball tandems qualifying here Tuesday for the “money” rounds starting Wednesday on the dockside courts in Vagen Harbour.
2006年6月27日 挪威斯塔万格――在斯塔万格维根港船坞球场，将分成8个沙排组进行比赛奖金达58万美元的Conoco飞利浦大奖赛女沙正式赛事，周二先进行了资格赛，周三开始了为“金钱”而战。[/COLOR]
Featuring a 4,000-season centre court and a 600-seat, two-court stadium on a barge with “big” screen coverage, the fifth of 15 stops on the women’s SWATCH-FIVB World Tour will feature pool play for the first-time this year. Host Norway will have three teams in the women’s Main Draw for the second of four SWATCH grand slam event of the season.
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Headlining the qualifiers was top-seeded Leila Barros and Ana Paula Connelly as the Brazilians won a pair of matches Tuesday along with a country quota contest Monday to advance to the Main Draw where they will play in the same pool with Norwegian Beach Volleyball Olympians Nila Ann Hakedal and Ingrid Torlen.
Ana Paula, who won the 2003 ConocoPhillips Grand Slam with her Athens Olympic partner Sandra Pires, and Leila have never played the Norwegians. The Brazilians have played the other two teams in the pool by defeating Katarzyna Urban/Joanna Wiatr of Poland in St. Petersburg and losing to Simone Kuhn/Lea Schwer of Switzerland in Athens last season. Hakedal and Torlen are 2-0 against the Swiss and will be playing Urban and Wiatr, the SWATCH-FIVB U-18 World Champions in 2004, for the first-time on the SWATCH Tour.
Other Norweigan women’s teams in the ConocoPhillips Grand Slam are 2004 Athens Olympians Susanne Glesnes/Kathrine Maaseide and Eydis Dalen/Kristine Wiig. Glesnes and Maaseide are competing together on the international circuit for the 66th-time. Glesnes is returning to competition this year after giving birth last summer to her son (Magnus).
In Glesnes and Maaseide’s pool will be the Netherlands’ Rebekka Kadijk/Merel Mooren and Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau of Germany, who won a European event two weeks ago in Moscow. Kadijk and Mooren placed seventh last week in the Gstaad Grand Slam while the Germans failed to qualify for the Main Draw. Also qualifying Tuesday for the pool was second-seeded Milagros Crespo/Imara Esteves Ribalta of Cuba.
Dalen and Wiig, who are playing in a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event for the first-time, will be in the same pool with Athens Olympic teams of Natalie Cook/Nicole Sanderson of Australia and Tamara Larrea Peraza/Dalixia Fernandez Grasset of Cuba. Cook, a two-time Olympic medalist and winner of the Sydney 2000 gold with Kerri Pottharst, and Sanderson were fourth in the Athens Olympics. Qualifying for the pool Tuesday was fourth-seeded Sarah Maxwell/Marie-Andree Lessard of Canada.
Other teams qualifying Tuesday were fifth-seeded Sara Montagnolli/Sabine Swoboda of Austria, 10th-seeded Morgane Faure/Virginie Sarpaux of France, 14th-seeded Summer Lochowicz/Tamsin Barnett of Australia, 16th-seeded Galyna Osheyko/Svitlana Baburina of the Ukraine and 22nd-seeded Hana Klapalova/Tereza Petrova of the Czech Republic.
The second of seven-straight double gender events on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour, the ConocoPhillips Grand Slam “officially” started Tuesday with the 33-team women’s qualifier. With the men’s qualifier Wednesday followed by Main Draw play Thursday, the women’s competition concludes Saturday when the final two teams compete for the $42,300 first-place prize. The men’s medal match will be Sunday.
Vagen Harbour hosts a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour grand slam event for the second-straight season. The ConocoPhillips Grand Slam is the second “major” event on the 2006 calendar as Switzerland hosted the first grand slam last week in Gstaad. After “open” stops in Marseille, Montreal and St. Petersburg the next three weeks, grand slam competition concludes in Paris and Klagenfurt, Austria.
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