At some point, the AVP Crocs Tour is going to have to learn about life without Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.
The tour's most popular players -- in large part to their consecutive Olympic gold medals -- plan on having children in the near future and would have to miss significant playing time.
So consider the final at the Santa Barbara Open Sunday a dress rehearsal.
For only the third time since joining the tour full time in 2003, May-Treanor and Walsh were knocked out of the tournament before the championship match as Jennifer Boss and April Ross upended the Golden Girls, 21-18, 15-21, 20-18 in the semifinals.
Boss and Ross went on to lose in the final, dropping a 21-16, 24-22 decision to Jenny Johnson Jordan and Annett Davis, but the buzz of the tournament was the shocking loss of May-Treanor and Walsh.
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