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2010 Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar

Tristo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:46:19 +0000

Here we are again, gearing up for another year of Beach Volleyball. The FIVB has released their calendar for the year and it’s a big one.

You can check it out here: http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/WorldTour/2010/?sm=15

It seems to be quite well organised this year. As usual starting in Brasil, then moving to Asia, then Europe and ending back in Asia. The only problem I can see is that the Women need to travel back to Korea after their event in Italy and then on to Russia, but I am guessing that quite a few teams will skip those two events to save a few $thousand in airfairs.

SO we have a total of 14 events for the Men and 15 bfor the women.

Top 5 ranking coming into season 2010 are as follows.

Mens

1 Brink-Reckermann
2 Harley-Alison
3 Herrera-Gavira
4 Nummerdor-Schuil
5 Ricardo-Emanuel

Women

1 Larissa-Juliana
2 Talita-Antonelli
3 Ross-Kessy
4 Goller-Ludwig
5 Akers-Turner

The Hague Open – Netherlands

Tristo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:24:24 +0000

Nummerdor-Schuil have become home town heroes winnning a second title in as many events and becoming only the fourth team in FIVB history to become back to back champions by winning the Hague Open in the Netherlands.

They won the final against Herrera-Gavira of Spain 2-1 (21-17, 18-21, 15-10) in just under an hour. Harley Alison finished third.

In the Womens tournament it was Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Larissa-Juliana beating Talita-Antonelli in the final. Vivian-Vieira third.

The New Zealand boys may as well have been playing at Manly, beating Hoyer-Soderberg then Heyer-Heuscher before being knocked out into 13th place by Kubala-Benes P. and in the women’s Blundell-Scarlett finished a respectable 9th.

The good news for Australia was that Boehm-McHugh broke through into the main draw. There were no Aussies in the womens tournament.

PAF Open – Aland, Finland

Tristo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:24:45 +0000

The Australian women’s teams are not playing the PAF Open in Finland, but both Men’s teams are still in the qualifiers.

Nothings easy in the men’s draw. First round of the qualifiers Campbell-Carey are up against a couple of 19 years olds from Holland, which sounds good on paper, until you check the bios and realise that this team, Brouwer-Varenhorst, finished second in the U/21 world championship last year. If they get through that match they will be up against the Polish team Fijalek-Prudel who are just coming off a 7th in the last event.

Boehm – Mchugh have a bye in the first round, then play against Norwegens, Horrem-Hordvik which should be a fairly even match looking at the past results of both teams. If the Aussies get through that they will most likely play Benjamin-Franco BRA.

FIVB results will be updated here.