AFRICAN SPORTS MONTHLY
'Sports is our Business'
  • Home
  • NEWS
  • Radio
  • TV

Men’s Pool Pairings Announced for 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships

3/31/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Hague, The Netherlands, March 30, 2015 - The men's pool matchups for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships The Netherlands 2015 were determined here Monday at the Mauritshuis art museum with the Drawing of Lots for the 12 groups of four teams each for the preliminary phase of the competition.

THE COMPETITION

With men’s pairs from 28 countries from the five FIVB confederations competing in the 10th annual FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, the 48 teams will start play June 26 at four sites in The Netherlands - The Hague, Amsterdam, Apeldoorn and Rotterdam.  The 48-team women’s competition will be held at the same time.


The top two men’s teams from each pool will advance to the opening rounds of the elimination bracket July 1 and 2 along with the eight-best third-place finishers in each group determined by point and set ratios.  The first two days of play in the 32-team elimination bracket will be held at the four pool play sites.  The Hague will host the semi-final and gold medal matches for both men and women on July 4 and 5.

DUTCH TEAMS PLACED

Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst of The Netherlands will be the top-seeded men’s pair in the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and will be the featured team in Pool A when group play begins July 26 in The Hague.  Nummerdor and Varenhorst captured two FIVB World Tour events at the end of last season in Brazil and South Africa.

Defending world champions Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of The Netherlands will be seeded 20th in the competition and will headline Pool E where group play will be staged in Rotterdam.  Brouwer and Meeuwsen, a team hampered by injuries in 2014, defeated Ricardo Santos and Álvaro Filho of Brazil at the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Stare Jablonki, Poland.

Other Dutch teams in the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are Steven van de Velde/Michiel van Dorsten (30th-seeded playing in Group F at Apeldoorn), Wessel Keemink/Sven Vismans (39th-seeded playing in Group J at Amsterdam) and a fifth pair to be determined in June after the completion of the Dutch Premier League.  The "wild card" Dutch team will be seeded 40th and with play in Pool I in The Hague.

BRAZILIANS & DEFENDING CHAMPIONS

Led by 2003 world and 2004 Olympic champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos, all four Brazilian teams entered in the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships will be the top-seeded pair in their group.  Emanuel and Ricardo, who rekindled their partnership at the end of last season after playing almost five season with different players, will be seeded seventh and will play in Group G in Amsterdam.

Other Brazilian pairs in the world championships are Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt (Pool C playing at Apeldoorn), Filho/Vitor Gonçalves Felipe (Pool K playing at Amsterdam) and Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Salgado (Pool L) playing at Rotterdam.  Alison teamed with Emanuel to win the 2011 world championship in Rome before the pair netted the silver medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The United States will have two of the top-seeded teams in group play - Phil Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal (Pool B playing at Amsterdam) and Tri Bourne/John Hyden (Pool I playing at The Hague).  Dalhausser claimed the gold medals at the 2007 world championships and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games when he was paired with Todd Rogers.  Hyden is the oldest (41 years, 8 months, 15 days) player to win an FIVB World Tour event when the team with Bourne to win last season’s stop in Berlin.

OTHER TOP PAIRS FROM EUROPE

Other top-seeded teams in the world championships will be Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel of Poland (Pool D playing at Rotterdam), Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai of Italy (Pool E playing at Rotterdam), Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins of Latvia (Pool F playing at Apeldoorn), Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik of Germany (Pool H playing at The Hague) and Konstantin Semenov/Viacheslav Krasilnikov of Russia (Pool J playing at Amsterdam)

With The Netherlands hosting five FIVB World Tour events previously, Fijalek and Prudel captured the last tournament in the European when the gold medal match was played Scheveningen beach in The Hague.  It was the first-ever FIVB World Tour gold medal for a Polish team as Fijalek and Prudel out-lasted Dalhausser and Rosenthal 21-18, 13-21 and 15-13 in a 59-minute match.

SEEDINGS & TICKETS

Teams were seeded by the sum of their athlete seeding points on the day before the Drawing of Lots (March 29).  Monday's was carried out in the presence of representatives from the FIVB, Nevobo (the Dutch Volleyball Federation), sponsors, city officials, members of Beach Team Netherlands, Tournament ambassadors and members of the media.

Tickets for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships The Netherlands 2015 can now be purchased at www.netherlands2015.fivb.org/en/tickets.

THE POOLS

• Pool A at The Hague - Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst of The Netherlands, Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz of Poland, Carlos Escobar/David Vargas of El Salvador, Nivaldo Gomez/Sergio Gonzalez of Cuba
• Pool B at Amsterdam - Phil Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal of the United States, Isaac Kapa/Christopher McHugh of Australia, Alexandr Dyachenko/Alexey Sidorenko of Kazakhstan, Sam O'Dea/Michael Watson of the New Zealand
• Pool C at Apeldoorn - Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt of Brazil, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst of Austria, Tiago Santos/Jefferson Santos Pereira of Qatar, Joshua Court/Damien Schumann of Australia
• Pool D at Rotterdam - Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel of Poland, Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter of Canada, Jesus Villafañe/Jackson Henriquez of Venezuela, Usama Eltranisy/Ayman Shoukry of Egypt
• Pool E at Rotterdam - Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai of Italy, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen of The Netherlands, Alexander Huber/Robin Seidl of Austria, Rodrigo Salinas/Matías Tobar of Chile
• Pool F at Apeldoorn - Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins of Latvia, Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt of Chile, Steven van de Velde/Michiel van Dorsten of The Netherlands, Ruslan Bykanov/Yaroslav Koshkarev of Russia
• Pool G at Amsterdam - Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos of Brazil, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera of Spain, Dmitri Barsouk/Nikita Liamin of Russia, Edward Seidu Ajanako/Jonathan Scott Sarpong of Ghana
• Pool H at The Hague - Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik of Germany, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk of Canada, Youssef Krou/Edouard Rowlandson of France, Grant Goldschmidt/Leo Williams of South Africa
• Pool I at The Hague - Tri Bourne/John Hyden of the United States, Philip Gabathuler/Mirco Gerson of Switzerland, , Eric Haddock/ Roberto Rodríguez-Bertrán of Puerto Rico, Wild Card of The Netherlands
• Pool J at Amsterdam - Konstantin Semenov/Viacheslav Krasilnikov of Russia, Theo Brunner/Nick Lucena of the United States, Alexey Kuleshov/Dmitriy Yakovlev of Kazakhstan, Wessel Keemink/Sven Vismans of The Netherlands
• Pool K at Apeldoorn - Álvaro Filho/Vitor Gonçalves Felipe of Brazil, Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson of United States, Christian Garcia/Francisco Alfredo Marco of Spain, Julian Amado Azaad/ Pablo Bianchi of Argentina
• Pool L at Rotterdam - Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Salgado of Brazil, Alexander Walkenhorst/Stefan Windscheif of Germany, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen of Mexico, Choaib Belhaj Salah/Mohamed Naceur of Tunisia


By: Editor
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013

    Menu

    All
    2014 FIFA World Cup
    Athletics
    Basketball
    Boxing
    Commonwealth Games
    Cricket
    Golf
    Hockey
    Marathons
    News
    Olympics
    Rugby
    Soccer
    Spotlight
    Tennis
    Track And Field
    Volleyball
    Women Soccer
    Wrestling


    Picture

    RSS Feed


    Tweets by ASMONTHLY

Tweet to @ASMONTHLY

Contact Us

    Contact Us

Submit

Donate & Support Our Efforts at African Sports Media Network