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Introducing the Beach Pro Tour

By Kyle Scholzen | October 15, 2021 , 11:00 AM (MDT)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (October 15, 2021) – In 2022, there’ll be a new look to international beach volleyball with the creation of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour.

The Beach Pro Tour, which replaces the current FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, combines beach volleyball with music, food and the beach lifestyle in cities across the globe. It features three levels of competition:

• The highest level of the Beach Pro Tour
• 16 teams per gender
• Only the world’s top 16 teams compete, no qualifiers
• Four pools of four teams each followed by a single elimination bracket
• Feeder to Elite16
• 24 teams per gender in main draw, up to 32 teams in qualifiers
• Modified pool play followed by single elimination bracket
• Feeder to Challenge level
• 16 teams per gender in main draw; up to 16 in qualifiers

Each season culminates in The Finals, which features the year’s 10 best teams per gender on the tour.

So far, 12 tournaments have been confirmed for 2022. Elite16 competitions will take place in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Czech Republic, Latvia, Switzerland, Qatar and Australia. Spain, Egypt, China and Australia are slated to hold Challenge tournaments. More will be announced over the coming months.

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour concludes in November with a four-star event at Itapema, Brazil.

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Beach Volleyball Digest: $800,000 World Tour Finals in Doha begins Thursday

Travis Mewhirter

January 23, 2023

We have an Alix Klineman update, sort of, but first …

It wasn’t difficult to see why Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes , and Sophie Bukovec and Sarah Pavan, immediately took to social media to celebrate what was then the best of Christmas presents: Wild cards into the season-ending Volleyball World Pro Beach Tour Finals in Doha, Qatar.

They were given an opportunity to play in one of the most exclusive events on the Beach Pro Tour calendar, with just a 10-team field and four guaranteed matches. They were gifted the perfect tune-up for the onset of Olympic qualifying, which begins the weekend following World Tour Finals, ironing out any kinks in their new chemistry in a risk-free setting — there are no points on the line, and therefore no points to lose, in the World Tour Finals.

They were also, of course, given the shot to compete for $150,000.

That’s not the total purse, nor is that a typo: $150,000 is the prize given to the gold medalists this weekend in Doha.

Prize money has been a common gripe amongst players on the Beach Pro Tour. But that will not be a gripe this weekend, where 20 teams will compete for a grand total of $800,000 in prize money. Even the teams finishing last will pocket nearly $8,000, roughly the equivalent of winning a silver medal in a Challenge, as Italians and men’s wild cards Adrian Carambula and Alex Ranghieri did in Torquay, Australia in November.

“This is the culmination of an incredibly competitive year on the sand around the world and one look at the teams involved shows just how exciting and competitive the first ever Beach Pro Tour Finals is going to be,” Volleyball World CEO Finn Taylor said . “With Olympic champions, world champions, in-form teams and new and returning partnerships taking to the sand, we have an event that promises to be packed with intriguing stories from the best teams in the world.

“We are looking forward to receiving a wonderful welcome from our hosts at the magnificent Aspire Park in Doha, and are grateful to our partners at the Qatar Volleyball Association and Aspire Zone.”

Cheng and Hughes, and Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth , are the only Americans in the field. Doha will provide the first look at the new team of Pavan and Bukovec, who formed after Meli ssa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson , both former partners of Pavan and Bukovec, became a team.

You can watch all of the matches on Volleyball TV. 

Alix Klineman announces partner for 2023 season 

Alix Klineman announced some big news earlier on Monday morning. Far too big for a simple Beach Digest item. We’ll have a full story soon.

Americans dropping out of — and dropping into — Doha Elite 16

The field for the season-opening Doha Elite 16, which follows the World Tour Finals and begins February 1, is constantly shifting. Americans Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner, who were seeded fourth in the qualifier, and Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles , who were directly into the main draw, have both dropped out of the Elite 16. This made for some excellent news for Tim Brewster and Kyle Friend , who slipped into the qualifier and are now seeded No. 15, in front of Canadians Jake MacNeil and Alex Russell. Friend is racking up the frequent flier miles early in 2023, as he only just returned from the King of the Court in Doha, where he finished fifth with Troy Field, barely one week ago.

Little else has changed on the women’s side, where Savvy Simo and Toni Rodriguez are still No. 2 on the reserve list.

Silila Tucker, Paul Lotman announce partnership

There are few sports where the cliche of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” has more relevance than in beach volleyball. Paul Lotman has taken the saying to heart, joining forces with Silila Tucker, the 2022 Eric Zaun Award winner and a defender who had beaten Lotman in their previous three meetings.

Lotman enjoyed a breakout year in 2022, winning his first AVP, in Atlanta with Miles Partain, and then nearly won the season-ending Phoenix Gold Series Championship. He received a last-minute call from Taylor Crabb to compete in back-to-back Challenge events in Dubai in the fall, and after finishing fifth and third, respectively, he added another top-five with a fourth in the Torquay Elite 16 with Miles Evans. All of those finishes vaulted Lotman, who led the AVP in total blocks in 2022 — earning the nickname Paul Blockman — onto the USA National Team, where he’ll use those points to carry Tucker into Challenge events to begin the season.

Tucker had a bit of a breakthrough himself in 2022, quadrupling his previous high in prize money, winning the Laguna Open with Andy Benesh , where he beat Lotman and Troy Field in the finals.

Sun Belt adds beach, forms eight-team conference

A week ago, it was Idaho who was adding beach volleyball . Now the Sun Belt has grabbed onto the fastest-growing sport in NCAA history, adding beach volleyball as its 19th sponsored sport.

Four Sun Belt Conference institutions currently sponsor Beach Volleyball — Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, ULM and Southern Miss. In addition, the Sun Belt will welcome affiliate members College of Charleston, Mercer, Stephen F. Austin and UNCW to form the eight-team league. Georgia State is a two-time NCAA Championship participant (2016, 2022) and advanced to the round of six last season.

“We are pleased and excited to welcome Beach Volleyball as our 19th championship sport,” Sun Belt commissioner Keith Gill said. “As the fastest growing collegiate sport, particularly within the footprint of the Sun Belt, it is a perfect fit for our conference. We’re looking forward to providing an elite competitive and championship environment for the student-athletes, coaches and fans of Sun Belt Beach Volleyball.”

Nike sponsors Kelly Cheng

The Swoosh will now be a regular feature in American beach volleyball. Kelly Cheng and Sarah Hughes, the No. 1 team in the USA, have both inked contracts with the sporting-goods giant. Hughes has been a longtime Nike athlete, signing almost immediately after graduating from USC, while Cheng was briefly with Adidas during her run with Sarah Sponcil. 

Brenden Sander signs with Panathinaikos Athens

This past September, the brotherly duo of Taylor and Brenden Sander drew no small amount of eyeballs when they teamed to take a fifth at the Laguna Open, upending a number of accomplished AVP players in the process — Seain Cook and David Lee, Evan Cory and Logan Webber, to name a few. With Brenden, the younger of the two, putting in regular time with the USA Volleyball developmental group, many wondered if he would be transferring to the beach, as older brother Taylor did.

Last week, Brenden, a former standout at BYU, signed with Panathinaikos Athens to play outside hitter.

Thais Treumann claims SSOVA open title at 14 years, one month

I made a deal with LT Treumann , a proud father and an excellent beach volleyball coach who oversees B Volley in St. Petersburg, Florida: When his daughter, Thais, won an open, with a solid field consisting of professionals, then, and only then, would she get a write-up. That day came on Saturday, when Treumann, an eighth grader at the age of 14 years and one month, and Lydia Smith, won a SSOVA event, beating Aurora Davis and Bree Scarbrough in the finals.

The field included USC recruit Ashley Pater and UCLA recruit Kennedy Coakley, who finished third, as did Violet Slabakova and Regan McGuire. Treumann, it should be noted, has received interest, according to her father, from all of the aforementioned schools, among several others.

Treumann, however, is not the youngest to win an open. Sarah Wood, a 14-year-old from Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, is the youngest I could find. She won an open at Highline Arena in New Jersey on December 19, 2020 — when she was just 12 years and seven months. Earlier this year, Wood became the youngest player to qualify for an AVP, when she and Ashley McGinn qualified for the Muskegon Tour Series when Wood was just 14 years, one month and 16 days. She snapped the record by more than two years.

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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Announces 2023 Schedule

Tour will span four continents over 10 months, with first and last event in doha, qatar.

The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour has announced the competition schedule for the 2023 season.

Following the success of the inaugural season, the Beach Pro Tour will travel to new, familiar and iconic locations across four continents.

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The Elite16 event in Doha, Qatar, kicks off the season on February 1. Tepic, Mexico, and Montréal headline the new stops on the tour in 2023. The calendar will also see several return stops from the 2022 season, including Roland Garros in Paris, Hamburg in Germany and Dubai, which will return in 2023 with an Elite16 event.

“The first season of the Beach Pro Tour has seen the world’s best teams compete at the highest level and we are looking forward to building on that success in the competition’s second season in 2023,” said Volleyball World Chief Executive Officer Finn Taylor .

Challenge event locations include Itapema, Mexico, the Maldives and Espinho, Portugal. New Challenge stops will head to Saquarema, Brazil; Hainan, China and the Philippines. After 10 months touring the globe in South America, Europe, North America and Asia, the Beach Pro Tour Finals 2023 will take place December 7–10, 2023, at Aspire Park in Doha.

“We are taking beach volleyball to fans in all corners of the world next season and the 2023 calendar represents a great opportunity for fans of all ages to rub shoulders with Olympic and world champions in some truly breathtaking locations,” Taylor said.

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VERO BEACH --- Garrett Johns dominated the ITF World Tennis Tour last year so to say he brought confidence to the Mardy Fish Children’s Foundations Tennis Championships would be an understatement.

Winning breeds confidence and vice-versa. Johns, 23, won four ITF $25,000 doubles titles and three ITF $15,000 singles titles last year while taking a year off from Duke University.

“It definitely did a lot for the confidence, coming through those tournaments when I play these tournaments,’’ said Johns, the second seed from Atlanta who humbled Alexander Razeghi, 17, of Humble, Texas, 6-3, 6-4 Thursday on Stadium Court at the Vero Beach Tennis & Fitness at Timber Ridge to advance to the final eight of this ITF $15,000 Pro Circuit event.

Johns, who is moving to Boca Raton where he will train with coach Noel Wadau, will next play another 17-year-old, wild card Rudy Quan of Sacramento in a quarterfinal match on Friday. Quan, who displays uncanny speed and a huge forehand, edged close friend and fellow 17-year-old Cooper Woestendick of Olathe, Kan., 6-3, 6-2. Woestendick is still in the doubles with Razeghi.

“[Johns'] consistency is really good,’’ said Razeghi, 17, whose ranked 1266 and has won six Gold Balls for winning USTA national junior tournaments, including the 16-and-under Easter Bowl. “He doesn’t really give you anything and he attacks from both sides. On the important points he was locked in and made me play every ball.”

Razeghi, who will attend Stanford this Fall, was hurt when he double faulted on break point at 3-3 of the first set. Then serving at 4-5 of the second set, Johns hit a nifty topspin lob for a winner to set up match point which he immediately captured on a Razeghi’s left-handed forehand into the net.

“After this college season I’m going to give the pros a go for at least two years,’’ said Johns, ranked 478, and an All-American in singles last year.

Woestendick won his first ATP ranking point in his first-round victory over Jake van Emburgh, but on Thursday was unable to recover from a service break at 2-3 of the first set when Quan ripped a cross-court forehand past him.

“I was happy and excited to get that first point. … I was playing well but Rudy played too good today,’’ said Woestendick, who will attend Texas Christian University in the Fall of 2025. “It felt like I couldn’t do anything against him. He moves extremely well and is so tough to get the ball past him. He stays on top of the baseline and if I hit one weak ball, the point is pretty much over, and he hits a winner.”

The pals occasionaly train together at the USTA National Campus in Orlando and share a history of winning the first two prestigious J-300 Indian Wells tournaments held during the ATP and WTA Master 1000 event every March. Woestendick won the Junior Australian Open doubles titles earlier this year.

“I got him in the semis there last year,’’ smiled Woestendick, who won the inaugural Indian Wells event in 2023, but Quan won it last month.

Quan, who will attend UCLA this fall, isn’t intimidated by Johns.

“I have to focus on myself and on the things that I have to do,’’ said Quan, who celebrated match point by turning around to his father/coach and “best friend,” Robert Quan by raising his fist and shouting,  “Yes!”

On Wednesday, qualifier Ryan Haviland, who runs Haviland Tennis Academy in Greenville, S.C., and is 43 years young, became the second oldest player currently on the ATP to earn a singles ranking point after defeating Miguel Cabrera of Chile, in a three-hour, 23-minute marathon to reach the second round. He was set to play, 20-year-old Victor Lilov (ranked 606).

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