Quick set udpate on Shanghai

I didn't have what you would call a good night last night, any way you cut it. Watching volleyball was feeling like work. And while I'd like for this to be my job, the fact is it isn't (yet). So I shut the laptop off, and went out and did something to cheer myself up.

After about 3 and a half hours, I had only written up one match anyway. Terrible streams were part of my bad night. So nothing of any great value was lost.

I won't do this very often. I already feel a little bit better, though the true underlying reason I was feeling so down still hasn't resolved. I hope it will, but I don't know.

Since I'm gonna try it again for the next day of Shanghai action, it's important to have context on record. So here are the 8 women's teams that made it through qualification:

Emilia Nystrom/Erika Nystrom (FIN)
Jolien Sinnema/Michelle Stiekema (NED)
Kinga Kolosinska/Monika Brzostek (POL)
Emily Day/Brittany Hochevar (USA)
Jennifer Fopma/Brooke Sweat (USA)
Jantine van der Vlist/Marloes Wesselink (NED)
Jamie Lynn Broder/Kristina Valjas (CAN)
Maria Clara Salgado Rufino/Carolina Solberg Salgado (BRA)

And the men's pool standings after one day of pool play:

Pool A

Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen (NED) 2-0
Eric Koreng/Alexander Walkenhorst (GER) 1-1
Penggen Wu/Jiaxin Wu (CHN) 1-1
Maverick Hatch/Sam Schachter (CAN) 0-2

Pool B

Sean Rosenthal/Phil Dalhausser (USA) 2-0
Julius Brink/Sebastian Fuchs (GER) 1-1
Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst (AUT) 1-1
Lizeng Zhang/Zhuoxin Li (CHN) 0-2

Pool C

Pedro Solberg Salgado/Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA) 2-0
Markus Böckermann/Mischa Urbatzka (GER) 1-1
Nicholas Lucena/Bradley Keenan (USA) 1-1
Daan Spijkers/Steven van de Velde (NED) 0-2

Pool D

Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo (ITA) 2-0
Isaac Kapa/Christopher McHugh (AUS) 1-1
Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz (POL) 1-1
Martins Plavins/Janis Peda (LAT) 0-2

Pool E

Ricardo Alex Costa Santos/Álvaro Morais Filho (BRA) 2-0
Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik (GER) 2-0
Matteo Ingrosso/Paolo Ingrosso (ITA) 0-2
Christian García/Adrián Gavira Collado (ESP) 0-2

Pool F

Alexey Sidorenko/Alexandr Dyachenko (KAZ) 2-0
Janis Smedins/Aleksandrs Samoilovs (LAT) 2-0
Sebastian Chevallier/Mats Kovatsch (SUI) 0-2
Christian Redmann/Josh Binstock (CAN) 0-2

Pool G

Sebastian Dollinger/Stefan Windscheif (GER) 2-0
Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel (POL) 2-0
Iver Andreas Horrem/Geir Eithun (NOR) 0-2
Philip Gabathuler/Jonas Weingart (SUI) 0-2

Pool H

Jacob Gibb/Casey Patterson (USA) 2-0
Vitor Gonçalves Felipe/Evandro Gonçalves Oliveira Júnior (BRA) 1-1
Linyin Xu/Peng Gao (CHN) 1-1
Alexander Huber/Robin Seidl (AUT) 0-2

I'll give it a shot again tonight, and I plan to write up some preview content for the NCAA tournament, too. Please forgive me for taking a little time to indulge myself. I needed it.