Carol/Rebecca vs. Thamela/Victoria - Gold Match Highlights | Rio de Janeiro 2025 #BeachProTour

In this tournament, as we take a look at the numbers here, first and total points as for Tamela and Victoria, she's the number one in the World Tour ranking. They got two gold medals in 2025, three gold medals. Victoria and Tamela in the yellow tops, it is Carol and Rebecca in the blue tops. Good change of direction from Victoria in transition, she scores down the line, pick up the turn and then deliver down the line. Carol cross court and a net violation from Tamela and this movement on that flow from Tamela. Rebecca, how about it? Nice little chip high line. Love that. The temptation set from Carol. Going a little bit further off all the hard work that you do in training and this is what you come for. Rebecca going cross court. Heavy, heavy swing from Rebecca. Great step from Carol, five. Good touch from Tamela and she's in the right spot and she knows she needs to get that a little higher for Victoria to help her out. Great pass from Tamela. Tamela into the block, it's covered, nicely done. Victoria transition, trying to go deep. No one up for Rebecca. Good touch, Tamela again, just pushing that ball too tight to the net. Short serve to Rebecca. A little trouble here on this ball. Rebecca off the net. And what a swing and a trouble position for Rebecca. 15 serving, 13. Nice line to line from Tamela. Rebecca, short dropping cut shot. What a touch again, the precision. Handles it down the tough serve. Reverse pokey that catches the net, which is a break and the slide approach to the bouncing on that end line from Victoria Lopez. So much swagger in that play. She was committed to the dig. Unbelievable. She dug it right to her. Set point, set point here for Tamela. And there is an extremely sharp little cutting. It's a different cutting, like you mentioned, than Victoria's. Beautiful movement and Tamela really caught out. Third set point off the hands. Good effort from Carol to try and just keep that one alive. Victoria Tamela, though, they hold on after that mid game run and the service pressure on there for a reason. They've been one of the most consistent teams this season in 2025. They're on two over. Good touch there from Rebecca and over the top of Rebecca goes Victoria the second time of asking. And that turn and burn was needed at that moment when you unweight and you got everything, so they've adjusted. Go deep. Push it deep. Push it back. Kind of surprised Carol, and she says, I am ready for it with that really good pass and a little soft shot on the line. Option from Carol. That's kind of the stomach of Tamela. So it's right in that trouble section there to try and get the dig. Something up. What a lift. Tamela's passing so crisp in this one. So is Carol's blocking. Victoria loves that push, that short dropping shot. Rebecca's there. Oh, and Rebecca. Oh, nasty serve. Carol retreating for this overpass. Nobody up for Carol, and that's a little home cooking right there off the net and it trickles across. Carol turning and burning. Can she get this one? Yes, she can. Goodness gracious, Carol on fire. Victoria not able to chase that one down. And so the top 12-7 for Carol and Rebecca. Poked back. Finally, a clean kill for Tamela and Victoria without a hand touch from Carol and Rebecca. When you're learning to spike and you're getting all the coaching from your coaches. 13-8 out of the tech. And it's going to be an ace for Carol. High pass, a little run through here from Carol. What a touch. Victoria, good hustle from Rebecca to keep this one in play. And Victoria coming up to get the block out of nowhere. Love to see that. The hustle was huge. 10-14, plenty of time left for Tamela and Victoria to work their way back into the second set. Good read. And the poke over is not touched. Doesn't matter. It surprises Rebecca and it drops. 18-16. Tamela, fast line. How about a bounce for Tamela? Got shot. Rebecca slides right in there. Big swing here. And it's going to be in. No swing needed. Just the knuckles for Rebecca Calicanti. Tamela just lost sight of the space. Just gets it done to Rebecca. Oh, Carol. She said, we want to go three. We want the gold. Another block. It's been absolutely amazing what she's been doing at the net. Wow. Carol. Carol willing her team here to that second set victory. And now it's going to be up to Tamela in her side out rhythm to find the touch. And that's a good place to start for Tamela. Yeah, exactly. She's done that soft cut shot. You didn't expect it to go anywhere. Tamela out of the middle. And Tamela with the proper thump in her own right. Yeah, we're liking that. I like it. Short serve catching that tape. Carol's going to option. And Carol has enough pace on it to wiggle. Showing us how dominant she's been at the net. Deep serve and that is going to be an ace. Interesting hand contact from Tamela. Your face, Denise, saying a lot. Oh, unique. You don't see that too often. Middle serve. That's going to be an ace as both Tamela and Victoria collapse to the sand. What's so cool about that number is that it's coming in multiple different variety. Jump serve, deep floats, middle jumps. There's a good swing from Tamela. Deep middle. Good pass from Carol. And Carol, just enough heat on it to catch Tamela a little late with the hands. Just the scream from Carol after it goes long is also notable. Victoria trying to help relieve that pressure, but it's dug from Rebecca over the head of Victoria. Too good. Tamela out of the middle. Nobody up off the tape. It's a break. Here is Rebecca in transition. What a touch from Victoria. To the high line over the head of Rebecca. With a lot of chaos going on. There's the change up the way of Carol. Carol chipped to the line. Perfect movement from Victoria. Cut shot over on one, two. Seven serving nine. Go back to Carol. Good read from Victoria controlling that pace into the high line. She goes. And so a nice change up. Tamela and Victoria trying to make a push here. Carol short line. Good timing from Tamela. They recycle. And guess what? Victoria there again on the dig. Victoria, she's dialed right now because she put this one away. She can. Her partner setting for a lot longer because she's not exactly sure it's going to go and then lose his sight. With a good pass from Tamela. Tamela at the face of Rebecca and. Option. A blocked out. Second match point for Carol and Rebecca. Carol off the block and in. Carol and Rebecca take the gold medal here in Rio de Janeiro. Carol goes back to back. Unbelievable. In her two hundred and twenty eight tournament, Carol Salgado rises to the top with a peak performance. And it was incredible.