The Azzurri Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai advance to the quarter-finals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament in Tokyo 2020 thanks to a 2-0 win (22-20, 21-18) over Poles Michal Bryl and Grzegorz Fijalek. Now in the quarterfinals, scheduled for Wednesday, the blue couple will face off against Qatari Cherif-Ahmed, who have so far been unbeaten in Tokyo as the Rio 2016 Olympic vice-champions.