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The Chinese duo of Chen Xue and Zhang Xi won the women's final at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Poland.

The top seeds needed six match points to beat Germany's Britta Buthe and Karla Borger.

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They may have needed six match points, but top-seeds Chen Xue and Zhang Xi lived up to their status by lifting their first major title by beating Britta Buthe and Karla Borger in the women's final at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships.

The Chinese pair beat the German duo 18-21, 21-17, 21-19 to add gold medals to the bronzes they won at Rome 2011 and the 2008 Olympic Games and become the first Asian side to be crowned world champions in Poland.

Xi obviously delighted:

"Oh my god it's my dream. I made it. Thank you everybody."

Earlier in the day, Liliane Maestrini and Barbara Seixas won their second set of bronze medals in two tournaments when they beat 2009 world champion April Ross and partner Whitney Pavlik.

The Brazilians finished third at the Rome Grand Slam and repeated the result when they beat the Americans 2-0 (21-18, 21-15).

In the men's draw, Ricardo Santos and Alvaro Filho will need to knock out defending champions Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti to reach the final.

Santos and Filho defeated Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira, while Rego and Cerutti held off Canadians Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk.

The teams know each other well - Rego and Santos were partners for a number of years and won the 2003 World Championships and the 2004 Olympic gold.

The other semi-final will be an all-European affair between Germany's Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik and the Netherlands' Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen.