FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour - Fuzhou Open - Let's Start the 2015 season

FIVB BEACH VOLLEYBALL

FUZHOU OPEN

April 21 to 26

Fuzhou, China opening FIVB Beach Volleyball season for third straight year

The 2015 FIVB beach volleyball international competition calendar begins for the third straight year with the FIVB Fuzhou Open in China. The capital city of the Fujian province will host the men’s and women’s FIVB Fuzhou Open from April 21 to 26.

This will be the third time Fuzhou will host an FIVB Open and the city organised the AVC Beach Volleyball Continental Cup in June 2012 where Australia bagged first place in the women’s tournament and Japan in the men’s. In last year’s second FIVB Fuzhou Open World Tour event, the gold medal winners for men was Italy’s Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo and for the women was USA’s Kerri Walsh Jennings/April Ross. A new team, Walsh Jennings is a three-time Olympic gold medallist with Misty May-Treanor and Ross won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games with Jen Kessy.

Fuzhou is one of eight Chinese cities to host an international FIVB beach volleyball event. The others include Beijing, Dalian, Lianyungang, Maoming, Sanya, Shanghai and Xiamen.

Men Country Quota Result

Federation quota for QAT
1	20-Apr	14:00	3	Jefferson/Cherif QAT	Tamer/Abdelaziz QAT	2-1 (21-17, 19-21, 15-7)	0:48
Federation quota for CHN
2	20-Apr	15:00	2	P. Gao/Y. Li CHN	H. Zhou/LI LEI CHN	2-1 (18-21, 22-20, 15-11)	0:48
1				HA Likejiang/Bao J. CHN	Bye
Federation quota for AUS
1	20-Apr	14:00	2	Court/Schumann AUS	Durant/Grice AUS	0-2 (19-21, 18-21)	0:37

Men Qualification - April 21

Round 1
16				Bye	Faiga/Hilman ISR [2]
15	21-Apr	09:50	1	Stoyanovskiy/Yarzutkin RUS [15]	Court/Schumann AUS [18]
14	21-Apr	09:00	2	Santos/Rudykh AZE [23]	Kovatsch/Kissling, J. SUI [10]
13	21-Apr	09:00	4	Plantinga/Wheelan CAN [7]	B. Salemi/R.RAOUFI IRI [26]
12	21-Apr	09:00	1	Takahashi/Hasegawa JPN [27]	Charly/Leon VEN [6]
11	21-Apr	09:00	3	Mermer/Sekerci TUR [11]	McColloch/Lorenz USA [22]
10	21-Apr	10:40	3	Romano/Gritsai AZE [19]	Chevallier/Krattiger SUI [14]
9	21-Apr	10:40	1	Solovejs/Sorokins LAT [3]	P. Gao/Y. Li CHN [30]
8	21-Apr	09:50	3	Kopp/Grabovskyy CAN [29]	Dumek/Kufa, R. CZE [4]
7	21-Apr	09:50	4	De Paula/Hevaldo BRA [13]	Jefferson/Cherif QAT [20]
6	21-Apr	10:40	2	Barsouk/Koshkarev RUS [21]	Kubala/Hadrava CZE [12]
5	21-Apr	10:40	4	Montgomery/Casebeer USA [5]	Popek/Pelka POL [28]
4	21-Apr	11:30	2	Watson/Sam O'Dea NZL [25]	Kunert/Dressler AUT [8]
3	21-Apr	11:30	1	HA Likejiang/Bao J. CHN [9]	Durant/Grice AUS [24]
2	21-Apr	09:50	2	Plavins/Egleskalns LAT [17]	Tomás/Menéndez ESP [16]
1				Pedlow/O'Gorman CAN [1]	Bye