Beach Volleyball World Tour — AVP Cincinnati Open 2016

SI Staff | May 23, 2016

Beach Volleyball World Tour — AVP Cincinnati Open 2016 /

Beach Volleyball World Tour — AVP Cincinnati Open 2016

April Ross of the USA with the kill over Anika Krebs of Germany as Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA watches.

Ryan Doherty of the USA throws up a big block of Yoshimi Hasegawa of Japan.

Trevor Crabb of the USA with a big dig.

Phil Dalhausser of the USA celebrates.

Jennifer Kessy of the USA.

Josemari Alves of Brazil.

April Ross of the USA pokes one past Teresa Mersmann of Germany.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA.

April Ross of the USA flat out.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA puts up the block on Isabel Schneider of Germany.

Jennifer Fopma of the USA chases down the ball.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA.

Casey Patterson of the USA.

Nick Lucena of the USA was a digging machine in his second round match.

Phil Dalhausser of the USA puts the clamps on a shot by Nicolas Capogrosso of Argentina.

Saymon Barbosa of Brazil with a big kill. He pounded his way to the gold medal.

Saymon Barbosa of Brazil and Tri Bourne of the USA joust at the net.

Jake Gibb of the USA with a big spike.

Tri Bourne of the USA with a dig.

David Poniewaz of Germany with the dirty dig.

Emily Day of the USA tries to dump the ball past Sayaka Mizoe of Japan.

April Ross of the USA and Summer Ross of the USA joust at the net.

April Ross of the USA with the dig.

Summer Ross (left) of the USA and Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA battle at the net.

Tim Holler of Germany with the kill over Jeremy Casebeer of the USA.

Derek Olsen of the USA.

Grant O'Gorman of Canada bangs the ball past Trevor Crabb of the USA.

Seven-footer Ryan Doherty of the USA gets fired up. He and partner John Mayer made it to the bronze medal game.

Phil Dalhauser of the USA bangs the ball past Kay Matysik of Germany.

April Ross and Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA join hands to jog onto the court to meet their competitors prior to every match.

April Ross (left) and Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA blasts the ball past Liliana Fernandez of Spain in the women's semi.

Lillian Fernandez (left) and Elsa Baquerizo of Spain celebrate their bronze medal victory.

April Ross (left) and Kerri Walsh-Jennings cruised into the women's final with a victory over Spain.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings (left) and April Ross of the USA hug during pregame introductions.

Phil Dalhausser of the USA serves it up during the men's semis. He and partner Nick Lucena took the bronze medal.

Saymon Barbosa of Brazil spikes the ball past Ryan Doherty of the USA during the semis.

Josh Binstock of Canada blocks a kill attempt by Nick Lucena of the USA in the semis.

Standing room only at the women's gold medal match between the USA and China.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA blocks a shot by Xinyi Xia of China.

Chen Xue (left) and Xinyi of China keep the ball alive during the finals. They would up as silver medalists.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA celebrates.

April Ross of the USA with a kill past Chen Xue of China.

Chen Xue of China and Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA joust at the net.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the USA with the kill past Chen Xue of China.

Kerri Walsh-Jennings and April Ross of the USA celebrate their gold medal win.

(Left to right) Xinyi Xia and Chen Xue of China (Silver), Kerri Walsh-Jennings and April Ross of the USA (Gold), and Liliana Fernandez and Elsa Baquerizo of Spain (Bronze) pose for a group hug during the women's medal ceremony.

Josh Binstock of Canada kept this ball alive, but it was not nearly enough to get the Canadians past the Brazilians in the final.

Gustavo Carvalhaes of Brazil makes a great dig during the gold medal match.

Gustavo Carvalhaes and Saymon Barbosa of Brazil took the gold with a straight set victory over Canada's Linstock and Schachter.

Published May 23, 2016

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