SHANGHAI , May 1 (Xinhua) -- Defending champions Jacob Gibb and Casey Patterson collected their third straight win in the Main Draw pool play here on Thursday morning to lead three teams from the United States into the top 16 round at the US$800,000 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Shanghai Grand Slam.
Top seeded Americans Sean RosenthalPhilip Dalhausser and lucky qualifiers John HydenTri Bourne also secured their berths in the top 16 round with unbeaten records in respective groups.
Other undefeated pool winners include newly-crowned Fuzhou Open champions Paolo NicolaiDaniele Lupo of Italy, Pedro SalgadoEmanuel Rego from Brazil, Spain's Pablo Herrera AllepuzAdrian Gavira Collado and Latvia's Aleksandrs SamoilovsJanis Smedins.