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Doha 4-star – Top teams facing early elimination today
After the first day of the Doha 4-star main draw, several top teams are facing an early goodbye in today’s second pool matches. US veterans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena will need to go up against Austria’s Huber/ Dressler in a “win-or-go-home” match. They are...
Doha 4-star kicked off to gather the beach volleyball world elite
After a one-year break, it is the return of the international beach volleyball elite at Doha in Qatar. Last year’s Katara Beach Volleyball Cup was the last big event. Then Covid came. Then a long break. But now the action and the excitement is back. And after all,...
Jurmala – the heart of Latvian beach volleyball
This week’s CEV European Championships will be hosted by Jurmala, a lovely seaside resort in Latvia. We digged a bit deeper to find out more about Jurmala, the heart of Latvian beach volleyball… Jurmala is the largest resort town on the coast of the Baltic Sea with an...
Strong Swiss teams in Baden – Seidl/Waller claim gold
It was only a 1-star event but the entry list of the FIVB Baden Open read like the one of a 4-star. The event was dominated by teams from Switzerland who claimed four spots in the semifinals and one gold, two silver and a bronze medal. On the women’s side, Hamburg...
Tri and Trevor pull it off at Long Beach
They were in the zone. They felt the energy. They did it! Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb claimed the last title of the 2020 AVP season by beating oldies Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the final of the Porsche Cup. Though losing the final, Dalhausser/Lucena won the...
Business as usual in Long Beach: Phil Dalhausser claims 100th title
It was the same teams as last week, sometimes even the same brackets as in the first edition of the AVP Champions Cup Series. You might wanna blame the format of the series but in the end it goes deeper. The entire competition did also say a lot about the current...
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AVP Wilson Cup: Top-seeds on track
The recently formed new partnerships in the US are still struggling to challenge the established teams. With no major Saturday upsets to report from the AVP Champions Cup Series, the top teams are all on track to some well-known finals. Will the Wilson Cup see the...
Top seeds walk into AVP Long Beach semifinals – World champs struggle
It was a rather relaxed Saturday for the top-seeded men’s teams in Long Beach. In the first event of the AVP Champions Cup Series, 2008 Olympic champion Phil Dalhausser and his partner Nick Lucena posted two straight wins to advance to the semifinal. The number-1...
AVP Legend John Hyden about Hyden Beach, the Wizard of Oz and his new partner
John Hyden The AVP Legend on Hyden Beach, the Wizard of Oz & his new partnerJohy Hyden is just back from the court. Not from training for the upcoming AVP Champions Cup but from coaching a group of girls. John has recently opened his own beach volleyball training...
Tokyo 2021 – How the Olympics look like in the post-pandemic world
In March, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed to July 2021. It was the first peacetime postponement of the Olympic Games in history. Recently, Japanese officials and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made clear that there will be no further postponement....
Professional beach volleyball resuming in Europe
Europe is currently entering a post-lockdown phase after most of public life had come to a halt in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With restrictions being eased in many European countries, beach volleyball in public places has already resumed in some European...
How beach volleyball is coming back in Corona times
We have already given a few examples where and how beach volleyball has been played in recent weeks. Due to the Swedish situation, beach volleyball in Stockholm is rather a "business as usual" thing. In Berlin, official courts had been closed but in public parks beach...
