Riem Sokphirom and Soun Ravi are both through to the knockout stages of the Beach Teqball International Cup in Wanning, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The duo finished second in their respective preliminary group ties to advance to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sokphirom, who won the gold at the SEA Games demonstration event in Phnom Penh two years ago, started off on a strong note, defeating China\u2019s Chen Bingyu 12-9, 12-3 in Group G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the world number 112 was given a rude awakening a much lower ranked Noah Dahlmann of Denmark in his second match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dahlmann, ranked only 161, handed Sokphirum a 5-12, 12-11, 9-12 defeat in a closely fought encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sokphirum will play China\u2019s Ning Yang, who topped Group H in the last 16 on Saturday. The 20-year-old Chinese player is ranked 80th<\/sup> in the world and will start off as the favourite in the tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ravi, meanwhile, will take on Sokpirum\u2019s slayer Dahlmann in the last 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ravi was handed a 7-12, 4-12 by Thailand\u2019s top ranked Uthen Kukheaw in his opening Group C match. However Ravi ensured his place in the knockout stages with a 12-11, 12-6 win over Muhammad Eizlan Rakhil Bin Abd Rahman of Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riem Sokphirom and Soun Ravi are both through to the knockout stages of the Beach Teqball International Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-newsbeat","tag-teqball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed.jpg",1702,1276,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed.jpg",1702,1276,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"National<\/a> Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Teqball-cambodia_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}