The favorites of the championship confidently started the competition. The winners of their groups in the women’s tournament, who immediately advanced to the second round of the knockout stage, were Ainė Raupelytė and Monika Paulikienė, Ieva Dumbauskaitė and Gerda Grudzinskaitė, Ariana Rudkovskaja and Skalvė Križanauskaitė, Jekaterina Saulė and Danielė Kvedaraitė, Gabija Oganauskaitė and Vlada Oganauskienė.
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Only in group E, the top-seeded Rugilė Grudzinskaitė and Mėja Matiukaitė lost in a dramatic match 1:2 (21:11, 11:21, 18:20) to the young Agata and Beatričė Michalkevičiūtė.
The knockout stage started immediately on Saturday, after which the opponents of the mentioned teams in the second round were determined.
G. Oganauskaitė and V. Oganauskienė have already advanced to the third round, defeating Goda Garbatavičiūtė and Andrėja Kuraitytė 2:0 (21:11, 21:6).
On Sunday morning, A. Raupelytė and M. Paulikienė will play against R. Grudzinskaitė and M. Matiukaitė, I. Dumbauskaitė and G. Grudzinskaitė will face Mėta Karčemarskaitė and Rusnė Andruškevičiūtė, A. Rudkovskaja and S. Križanauskaitė will play against Dorotėja Keraitei and Ingrida Milkintaitė, J. Saulė and D. Kvedaraitė will face Mėja Gurčiūtė and J. Raudytė, and the Michalkevičiūtė sisters will play against Livija Vilkelytė and Guoda Bruzgaitė.
The winners of the men’s tournament groups were last year’s champions Arnas Rumševičius and Karolis Palubinskas in group A, Povilas Piešina and Audrius Knašas in group B, Artūras Vasiljevas and Robertas Juchnevičius in group C, Edvinas Vaškelis and Patrikas Stankevičius in group D, Jokūbas Lošys and Andžejus Savostenokas in group E, and Redas Mastebrockis and Aivaras Balkauskas in group F.
On Sunday morning, the mentioned teams will face challenges from Povilas Varpiotas and Jonas Grikšas, Armandas Nefas and Martynas Gurtajus, Margiris Motiejūnas and Danielius Šumeika, Linas Minius and Aidas Užpelkis, Matas Mecelis and Kristupas Sliežauskas, Dovydas Sinkevičius and Raigardas Mačionis, who successfully passed the first round of the knockout stage.
At the “VolleyART House” court, celebrating its first birthday, every point is important because six teams will earn places in the quarterfinals in the third stage of the knockout rounds, and two more will qualify based on the best point ratio from the start of the tournament.
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The finals will take place on Sunday evening.
