The Seattle Yacht Club's OneWorld Challenge has elected to sail against Team Dennis Conner in the quarter-final repechage of the Louis Vuitton Cup when racing commences on Saturday.
That means the other pairing will be the Italian Prada Challenge against Sweden's Victory Challenge. The winners of the two best-of-seven matches will race each other in the semi-finals, while the losers are eliminated.
OneWorld's choice of Team Dennis Conner creates an all-American pairing of teams.
While OneWorld blazed through the first round robin unbeaten, Team Dennis Conner was slow out of the gate with a 4-4 record.
Both teams stumbled in round robin two, OneWorld going 5-3 and Team Dennis Conner just winning two races from eight starts.
But in the quarter-finals, Conner sailed USA-77 for the first time and, with a little bit more boat speed, turned in a dominating performance over the GBR Challenge.
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