The men’s and women’s beach volleyball competitions continue Saturday, with both completing the Round of 16 matches. Among the teams in action is the American men’s tandem of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena, who drew Austria’s Robin Seidl and Alexander Huber in their opening knockout stage match. While Dalhausser and Lucena won all three of their matches in the preliminary round, Seidl and Huber winning two of their three matches but finishing third in the group thanks to the beach volleyball point system.
One of those two wins came against Brazil’s Alison and Bruno Schmidt, one of the team expected to contend for gold.