LONDON – A night after defending gold medalists Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser were upset in the round of 16, the American beach volleyball teams got back on track Saturday at the Horse Guards Parade.
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor lost their first set in Olympic competition last time out, but they had no such trouble in advancing to the quarterfinals with a convincing win over Dutch pair Marleen van Iersel and Sanne Keizer.
(Listen to Kerri and Misty’s post-match interview with Joe Tolleson)
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Meanwhile, the remaining American men’s pair of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal also advanced to the quarterfinals with a straight sets victor over the Russian team of Konstantin Semenov and Serguei Prokopiev. Gibb and Rosenthal won the first set 21-14, but had to work hard in the second set to close out the Russians by a final score of 22-20.
