Boermans & De Groot back on track with two big wins on Friday

Another Dutch duo, 13^th-seeded Ruben Penninga & Matthew Immers, also scored two wins on Friday to stay in the tournament. They beat Austria’s Julian Horl & Moritz Pristauz by 2-0 (21-15, 26-24) for the third place in Pool A. In their round of 18 game against American Olympians Chase Budinger & Miles Evans, Penninga & Immers came back from a set down to earn a 2-1 (16-21, 21-13, 15-9) victory. Next, they will take on fifth-seeded Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak of Poland.

The remaining first elimination round matches were won by teams who came in as pool runners-up.

Canada’s Samuel Schachter & Jonathan Pickett, who started their Brasilia campaign from Wednesday’s qualifiers, are already in the round of 12 after a 2-0 (21-16, 21-19) sweep of their encounter with Italy’s Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso. They will now challenge top-seeded Norwegians Anders Mol & Christian Sorum.