The Italians were surprisingly beaten yesterday by Qatari duo Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse, seeded 29th, at the Eisbahn Areal in the Swiss Alps village.

Chile’s Marco and Esteban Grimalt were their opponents today and the South Americans consigned them to another defeat after claiming a 21-19, 16-21, 15-11 success.

Santos Pereira and Younousse could not follow up their opening victory with a second today.

Despite taking the opening set, the Qatari duo fell to a 22-24, 26-24, 15-11 defeat to the United States’ Jacob Gibb and Taylor Crabb.

Brazil's Gustavo "Guto" Carvalhaes and Pedro Solberg became the second men’s team in the 30-season history of the FIVB Beach World Tour to win an event after starting the competition in the country quota rounds in Poreč last week.

They were beaten 21-16, 21-19 by Mexican duo Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan Virgen today.

In the women's competition, qualifiers Taiana Lima and Elize Maia of Brazil won their pool.

The 17th-seeds finished Pool A with a 100 per cent record after claiming a third win today.

They defeated Inna and Iryna Makhno of the Ukraine 21-10, 21-16 

Brazil had a further two group winners today including second-seeded Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca in Pool B and third-seeded Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa in Pool C.

Antunes and Franca recorded a 21-11, 26-24 win over Germany's Isabel Schneider and Victoria Biench in their solitary match today while their compatriots saw off Canada's Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson 21-18, 17-21, 15-13.

Canada's fifth-seeded Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan, who won the World Tour gold medal last week in Croatia, topped Pool D.