News Beach volleyball 18/07/2014 Elimination Rounds Highlight Friday’s Transavia Grand Slam Schedule The Hague, The Netherlands, July 18, 2014 - After a day of qualifying and two days of pool play matches, the US$1-million Transavia Grand Slam presented by Bas Van de Goor Foundation continues here Friday with 32 total elimination matches for men and women to set the schedule for Saturday’s quarter- and semi-final rounds. The Hague Beach Stadium and three courts on Scheveningen beach will be used for the FIVB World Tour event as 18 countries still remain in the competition, including 15 countries still in contention for the men’s gold medal and 14 nation’s still challenging for the women’s title. As the host country, The Netherlands has three men’s teams and one women’s tandem still competing. Both Brazil (five women’s teams and two men’s tandems) and United States (three women and four men) have seven pairs still competing with Germany advancing five teams (three women and two men) to the elimination rounds. Friday’s play opens at 10:30 a.m. (local time) for women and 12:30 p.m. for men for the first-round of elimination. The second elimination round starts at 3:30 p.m. for women and 4:30 p.m. for men. The final set of matches Friday at The Hague Beach Stadium and the Scheveningen courts is schedule to be played at 8:30 p.m. Here is Friday’s schedule. Match No., Time, Court, Team A, Country (Seed), Team B, Country (Seed), Elimination Round51, 10:30, 1, Menegatti-Orsi Toth ITA [20], Fendrick-Sweat USA [12], Women's 1st53, 11:30, 1, Bawden-Clancy AUS [15], Meppelink-Van Iersel NED [1], Women's 1st55, 12:30, 1, Lima-Fernanda BRA [11], Summer-Day USA [13], Women's 1st54, 13:30, 1, Stiekema-Varenhorst NED [9], Spijkers-van Dorsten NED [30], Men's 1st55, 14:30, 1, Brouwer-Meeuwsen NED [10], Tomatis-Ranghieri ITA [22], Men's 1st52, 10:30, 2, Gallay-Klug ARG [19], Agatha-Seixas BRA [7], Women's 1st54, 11:30, 2, Maria Clara-Carol BRA [16], Broder-Valjas CAN [27], Women's 1st50, 12:30, 2, Wang Fan-Yue Y. CHN [9], Dubovcova-Nestarcova SVK [14], Women's 1st51, 13:30, 2, Nicolai-Lupo ITA [2], Chevallier-Strasser SUI [26], Men's 1st53, 14:30, 2, Walkenhorst-Windscheif GER [16], Gibb-Patterson USA [13], Men's 1st49, 10:30, 3, Borger-Büthe GER [5], Holtwick-Semmler GER [8], Women's 1st56, 11:30, 3, Ludwig-Sude GER [10], Bansley-Pavan CAN [18], Women's 1st49, 12:30, 3, Lucena-Doherty USA [11], Huber-Seidl AUT [21], Men's 1st50, 13:30, 3, Sidorenko-Dyachenko KAZ [19], Kapa-McHugh AUS [18], Men's 1st52, 14:30, 3, Grimalt-M. Grimalt CHI [28], Schalk-Saxton CAN [17], Men's 1st56, 15:30, 3, Doppler-Horst AUT [20], Ontiveros-Virgen MEX [25], Men's 1st60, 15:30, TBD, Winner of match #52, Liliana-Baquerizo ESP [4], Women's 2nd59, 15:30, TBD, Antonelli-Juliana BRA [6], Winner of match #51, Women's 2nd62, 16:30, TBD, Winner of match #54, Brzostek-Kolosinska POL [24], Women's 2nd57, 16:30, TBD, Walsh-Ross USA [2], Winner of match #49, Women's 2nd58, 16:30, TBD, Winner of match #50, Fijalek-Prudel POL [6], Men's 2nd57, 16:30, TBD, Hyden-Bourne USA [15], Winner of match #49, Men's 2nd64, 17:30, TBD, Winner of match #56, Zumkehr-Heidrich SUI [17], Women's 2nd61, 17:30, TBD, Kolocova-Slukova CZE [3], Winner of match #53, Women's 2nd63, 18:30, TBD, Larissa-Talita BRA [28], Winner of match #55, Women's 2nd58, 18:30, TBD, Winner of match #50, Goricanec-Hüberli SUI [26], Women's 2nd64, TBD, TBD, Winner of match #56, Rosenthal-Dalhausser USA [1], Men's 2nd63, TBD, TBD, Herrera-Gavira ESP [5], Winner of match #55, Men's 2nd62, TBD, TBD, Winner of match #54, Erdmann-Matysik GER [7], Men's 2nd61, TBD, TBD, Alison-Bruno BRA [3], Winner of match #53, Men's 2nd60, TBD, TBD, Winner of match #52, Samoilovs-Smedins, J. LAT [4], Men's 2nd59, TBD, TBD, Emanuel-Pedro BRA [8], Winner of match #51, Men's 2nd As a “prelude” to the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, the final three days of the Transavia Grand Slam will be staged only at the Scheveningen courts where the medal matches will be played Sunday. The final two teams in both gender’s competition with be competing for the gold medals and a share of the $70,000 first-place prize for each winning team. Following this week’s event, the FIVB World Tour returns to the United States for the second-straight year as Long Beach in southern California hosts another $1-million event. The international circuit returns to Europe in August for stops in Austria (Klagenfurt, July 29-August 3) and Poland (Stare Jablonki, August 19-24). 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