Top seed Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar lived up to their reputation as they won their first two matches of Pool A (main draw) at the Doha Cup beach volleyball yesterday. At the Gharafa Beach Complex courts, the 13th ranked Qatari pair on the FIVB World Tour firsat defeated the Russian team of Pavel Shustrov-Alexey Gusev 2-0 (21-14, 21-17) and later in the evening they defeated Joe El Azzi and Salba Chafic of Lebanon 2-0 (21-8 21-11).