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USA'S May/Walsh & Bragado/Wood Post 3-1 Japanese Open Pool Play Record Friday
Eighth FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Women's Event Continues Saturday

OSAKA, JAPAN (August 9, 2002) The United States tandems of top-seeded Misty May/Kerri Walsh and 28th-seeded Danalee Bragado/Ali Wood won three of four matches here Friday (August 9) during the opening pool play rounds in the ninth annual
Japanese Open.

The $150,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour women's event is minus three of the United States top teams. The American tandems of Holly McPeak/Elaine Youngs, Dianne DeNecochea/Barbra Fontana and Carrie Busch/Leanne Schuster are missing the eighth women's FIVB Tour stop this season to participate this weekend in an Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) Tour event in Manhattan Beach, Calif. (August 8-11).

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[Source: Tim Simmons, 303/678-8484; 303/678-7474 (FAX)]

 

 

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