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Buytrago, Abadilla fall to Aussies in first quarters match

Published Oct 16, 2025 03:28 pm

At A Glance

  • Alas Pilipinas top pair of James Buytrago and Ran Abdilla held fort only to tumble against a taller Australian duo of D'Artagnan Potts and Jack Pearse, 21-14, 21-18, to exit the men's main draw of the Volleyball World 2025 Beach Pro Tour Challenge at the Nuvali Sands Court by Ayala Land on Thursday, Oct. 16, in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Alas Pilipinas top pair of James Buytrago and Ran Abdilla held fort only to tumble against a taller Australian duo of D’Artagnan Potts and Jack Pearse, 21-14, 21-18, to exit the men’s main draw of the Volleyball World 2025 Beach Pro Tour Challenge at the Nuvali Sands Court by Ayala Land on Thursday, Oct. 16, in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
“We adjusted very well in our strategies to disrupt their plays, but we just couldn’t sustain our game to the end,” said the 26-year-old Buytrago, who played with an injured right index finger. “The paint merely went off during the match maybe because of adrenaline.”
The Alas Pilipinas pair, which clinched bronze in the 2023 Cambodia Southeast Asian Games, gave the Aussies a scare at 18-19 but fell short in the Pool H match.
All’s not lost though for Buytrago and Abdilla—they had another evening quarterfinals match on Thursday againzt Tim Brewster and Ryan Lerna of the US.
Italy’s Enrico Rossi and Marco Viscovich defeated Brewster and Lerna, 21-12, 22-20, to join Potts and Pearse unbeaten 1-0 slate in Pool H of the weeklong competition hosted by the Philippine National Volleyball Federation headed by Ramon “Tats” Suzara.
“We still have a chance if we win against the USA in our later match. I believe we can bounce back later,” Buytrago said.
Indonesia’s Akbar Bintang and Sofyan Rachman Efendi, who won gold in the Beach Pro Tour Futures last year in Wuhan (China), beat Germany’s Philip Huster and Maximilian Just, 23-21, 21-19, in a Pool D duel.
In other men’s results, Spain’s Alejandro Juerta and Adrian Gavira beat Latvia’s Ardis Beritis and Arturs Rinkevics, 21-19, 21-18, in Pool D, and the US’s Logan Webber and Hagen Smith downed Denmark’s Mads Mollgaard and Nicolai Houmann, 21-17, 18-21, 15-12, in Pool B.
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