The 18th-seeded Samoilovs/Šmēdiņš won the second match of Group B with the result 2-0 (21:15, 21:17) over the Germans Simon Pfrechner/Filip Huster (31st).
Samoilovs/Šmēdiņš will start the elimination tournament from the first round or 1/16 final.
In the first match on Tuesday, the Latvian beach volleyball players lost 1-2 (23:21, 23:25, 12:15) to the Poles Piotr Kantor/Macej Rudol (15th) and postponed the fight for the “play-off” to Wednesday, while the Germans with 0 -2 (14:21, 13:21) lost to Dutch champions Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meuvsen (3rd).
It has already been reported that Tīna Graudiņa and Anastasija Kravčenok won both subgroup games and secured a place in the round of 16.
In the European Championship, 32 duets are divided into eight subgroups. The winning pairs in both matches will immediately enter the round of 16, but the duos who won one match will start the elimination tournament from the first round, while the championship will be over for the beach volleyball players who lost in both matches.
In the championship held in Vienna last year, Graudiņa/Kravčenok took fourth place, but Samoilovs/Šmēdiņš and Mārtiņš Pļaviņš/Edgar Točs did not make it past the second round of the play-off.
