Three U.S. men’s beach volleyball teams have advanced to the third round of the Morocco Open, the final men’s event on the FIVB Swatch World Tour 2011.
On Friday, the U.S. team of Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Santa Barbara, Calif.), seeded 11th, will play compatriots Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), ranked 14th, in the third round.
The U.S. team of 23rd-ranked Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.) and Kevin Wong (Honolulu, Hawaii) will play Netherlands’ 15th-seeded Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil in the third round.
Fuerbringer and Lucena opened play on Thursday in the first round with a 21-13, 21-12 victory in 32 minutes over Italy’s 22nd-ranked Matteo and Paolo Ingrosso. In the second round, Fuerbringer and Lucena topped Germany’s sixth-ranked Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik, 15-21,
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