USA’s Alix Klineman (L) hugs partner April Ross in their women’s preliminary beach volleyball pool B match between the USA and China during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo on July 25, 2021. (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
The Southern California beach volleyball team of April Ross and Alix Klineman were back in action Monday in the Tokyo Olympics, beating Spain for their second Olympics win, 21-13, 21-16.
Ross, of Costa Mesa, and Klineman, of Manhattan Beach, came off a win over China’s Xue Chen and Wang Xinxin in straight sets, 21-17, 21-19.
Ross won bronze in Rio and a silver at the London Olympics in 2012. She parted ways with beach volleyball icon Kerri Walsh Jennings after they won bronze in Rio.
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She has been playing with Klineman, a first-time Olympian, for three years. The pair won silver at the 2019 World Championships.
