Meanwhile, the Brazilian race for two men’s tickets to Paris is a bit more polarized, with Andre Stein & George Wanderley and Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano well ahead of Pedro Solberg & Gustavo Carvalhaes (Guto) in the men’s provisional Olympic ranking. However, the latter have not given up hope and all three of these duos will compete in the Guadalajara main draw, with Evandro & Arthur in the number one seed.
Steven van de Velde & Matthew Immers will be the only Dutch team in Mexico this week collecting precious points to fight off the rise of compatriots Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot and possibly narrow the distance to the country’s highest ranked pair, Alexander Brouwer & Robert Meeuwsen.
Guadalajara may see a few more notable “gray area” absences in the men’s line-up than in the women’s, but with Italy’s Adrian Carambula & Alex Ranghieri, Chile’s Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt, Austria’s Robin Seidl & Moritz Pristauz and Norway’s Mathias Berntsen & Hendrik Mol, who are currently in qualifying spots just above the cut-off, as well as Italy’s Daniele Lupo & Enrico Rossi, Lithuania’s Patrikas Stankevicius & Audrius Knasas, Portugal’s Joao Pedrosa & Hugo Campos, Cuba’s Noslen Diaz & Jorge Alayo, France’s Arthur Canet & Teo Rotar and England’s Joaquin Bello & Javier Bello, who are not far behind them, all in the mix, the excitement is guaranteed.
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