The United States beat South Korea, 25-19, 20-25, 20-25, 25-21, in its opening match of pool play.
In Tuesday's other game, New Zealand side Auckland Aces beat Pakistan's Sialkot Stallions by six wickets, in the first match of Pool 1 which also includes English Twenty20 champions Hampshire.
21-16, in their first match of pool play.
After a three-FIVB tournament lull during which they did not crack the top four, they finished third in Gstaad, Switzerland earlier this month and won their second match of pool play on Wednesday at the FIVB World Series of Beach Volleyball at Marina Green Park.
HG: I wouldn't be surprised if the All Blacks' other fly-half Beauden Barrett is short odds, as he may fill his boots (almost literally) as a kicker in a couple of pool matches and always likely to appear in the second half of matches even if Carter starts.
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His Indians struggled in both their matches of opening pool play action of the Los Tacos Holiday Festival Tournament at the Glendale Sports Complex, including dropping the afternoon contest, 5-0, veRoyalRonal on a day in which the squad was outscored, 8-0.
The defeat leaves 1992 champions Pakistan, who face Zimbabwe on 1 March in their next match, bottom of Pool B.
The official slogan for rugby league's 13th World Cup is Heroes '08 - we even had Natalie Bassingthwaite singing about them at Sunday night's opening ceremony - but who would have predicted the main men to emerge from the first four-match batch of pool fixtures?
