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Plavins and Edgars Tocs of Latvia and Alison Cerutti and Alvaro Morais Filho of Brazil conclude their men's beach volleyball quarter-final. The Brazilian duo are ranked world number 12 while the Latvian pairing are 34 in the world. This may appear to be a a gulf in class but you can never write off any Latvian pairing in men's beach volleyball.

In the third quarter-final, Germany's Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler play Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Viacheslav Krasilnikov of the Russian Olympic Committee. The Russian duo are ranked number two in the world while the German pair are ranked 22nd. In what is sure to be a hotly contested tie, the Russians will be favoruites. The winners will play either Ahmed Tijan and Cherif Younousse of Qatar or Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai of Italy.

The team from Qatar are world number ones and will need to see off the Italian duo, who are tenth. Both sides have impressed on their way to the quarter-final stage but the Italians will be up against it against the Qatari pair, who could set a world number one against world number two tie in the semis.