DOHA, Qatar — It was an awfully strange time for Kristen Nuss to, perhaps for the first documented time on a beach volleyball court, get lazy.
Nuss and Taryn Kloth were leading Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft, 19-17, in the second set of the Beach Pro Tour Finals gold medal match after having already won the first. They were two points shy of becoming the first repeat champions of the event since Germans Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst took gold in 2016 and 2017. And yet, there was Nuss, digging a high line shot and, rather than pop up and begin her approach for a transition swing as she has done hundreds of times this season, she just sort of laid there.
The previous touch had been purely Nussian, an all-out sprint to dig a Cannon high line. It was a dig only few in the world can make, and not…
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