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

FIVB BEACH VOLLEYBALL

FUZHOU OPEN

WOMEN

April 22 to 26

Fuzhou, China opening FIVB Beach Volleyball women season tomorrow at 8:00 (Fuzhou time)

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USA’s Jennifer Fopma/Summer Ross lead the ranking in the women’s qualification tournament set for 22 April at the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open. The first FIVB tournament of the season also opens the Olympic qualification window for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil.

In its third consecutive year, the FIVB Fuzhou Open is the first double-gender FIVB Open event of the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar with a prize purse of US$150,000.

Summer/Fopma pair together for the first time in 2015 with both women competing previously in Fuzhou with different partners. They are top of the qualification seeds earning a bye directly into the second round and are joined on their quest for the main draw with fellow Americans Brittany Hochevar/Heather Lee McGuire and Caitlin Ledoux/Irene Hester.

Canada’s Caleigh Whitaker/Kacie MacTavish take a second shot at the Fuzhou Open main draw after narrowly missing out last year, while Germany’s new pairing of Victoria Bieneck/Yanina Weiland also aim for a positive start to the season.

China has three teams in the qualification tournament with Wang Yuanyuan/Tang Ningya, Chen Chunxia/Wei Zhaochen and Wang Xinxin/Ding Jingjing and Japan has entered five teams.

Women Qualified Teams

Q	Cunha/Liubymova	AZE
	Karimova/Ferreira	AZE
	Lili/Carol Maximo	BRA
	Mersmann/Schneider	GER
	Giogoli/Cicolari	ITA
	Hochevar/McGuire	USA
	Summer/Fopma	USA
	Pata/Matauatu	VAN

Women Qualification - April 22

Round 1
16	22-Apr	09:40	5	Hasegawa/Nagata JPN [31]	Whitaker/MacTavish CAN [2]	0-2 (19-21, 12-21)	0:33
15	22-Apr	09:40	4	Gruszczynska/Baran POL [15]	Cunha/Liubymova AZE [18]	1-2 (16-21, 21-18, 18-20)	0:50
14	22-Apr	09:40	3	Tanaka/Kusano JPN [23]	Lili/Carol Maximo BRA [10]	1-2 (18-21, 21-15, 12-15)	0:52
13	22-Apr	09:40	2	Lobato/Soria ESP [7]	Tilley/Polley NZL [26]	2-0 (21-8, 21-16)	0:31
12	22-Apr	09:40	1	Chen Chunxia/Zh.Ch. Wei CHN [27]	Dabizha/Abalakina RUS [6]	2-0 (22-20, 21-17)	0:37
11	22-Apr	08:50	1	Pata/Matauatu VAN [11]	Y. Y. Wang/Tang N. Y. CHN [22]	2-0 (21-14, 21-11)	0:33
10	22-Apr	08:50	5	Karimova/Ferreira AZE [19]	Behlen/Culav GER [14]	injury team B	1:01
9	22-Apr	08:50	2	Bieneck/Weiland GER [3]	Wang X. X./Ding Jingjing CHN [30]	2-0 (21-17, 21-11)	0:27
8	22-Apr	08:50	4	Sirinuch/Pronsuda THA [29]	Hochevar/McGuire USA [4]	injury team A	0:05
7	22-Apr	08:50	3	Zolnercikova/Jakubsova CZE [13]	Nyström Er./Nyström Em. FIN [20]	1-2 (21-17, 18-21, 7-15)	0:43
6	22-Apr	08:00	1	Numwong/Hongpak THA [21]	Motrich/Rudykh RUS [12]	0-2 (17-21, 18-21)	0:39
5	22-Apr	08:00	5	Mersmann/Schneider GER [5]	Murakami/Ishii JPN [28]	2-1 (21-17, 19-21, 15-8)	0:55
4	22-Apr	08:00	4	Matsuyama/Miyuki JPN [25]	Giogoli/Cicolari ITA [8]	0-2 (8-21, 14-21)	0:29
3	22-Apr	08:00	3	Ledoux/Hester USA [9]	Habaguchi/Sakurako JPN [24]	1-2 (21-16, 12-21, 12-15)	0:48
2	22-Apr	08:00	2	van Gestel/Van der Vlist NED [17]	Braakman/Sinnema NED [16]	2-0 (21-12, 21-14)	0:31
1				Summer/Fopma USA [1]	Bye

Round 2
24	22-Apr	16:20	5	Cunha/Liubymova AZE [18]	Whitaker/MacTavish CAN [2]
23	22-Apr	15:30	5	Lobato/Soria ESP [7]	Lili/Carol Maximo BRA [10]	0-2 (19-21, 18-21)	0:33
22	22-Apr	14:40	5	Pata/Matauatu VAN [11]	Chen Chunxia/Zh.Ch. Wei CHN [27]	2-0 (21-17, 21-17)	0:34
21	22-Apr	13:50	5	Bieneck/Weiland GER [3]	Karimova/Ferreira AZE [19]	1-2 (14-21, 21-19, 19-21)	0:48
20	22-Apr	13:50	4	Nyström Er./Nyström Em. FIN [20]	Hochevar/McGuire USA [4]	1-2 (21-16, 15-21, 14-16)	0:49
19	22-Apr	13:50	3	Mersmann/Schneider GER [5]	Motrich/Rudykh RUS [12]	2-0 (21-18, 21-17)	0:43
18	22-Apr	13:50	2	Habaguchi/Sakurako JPN [24]	Giogoli/Cicolari ITA [8]	0-2 (14-21, 13-21)	0:30
17	22-Apr	13:50	1	Summer/Fopma USA [1]	van Gestel/Van der Vlist NED [17]	2-0 (21-19, 21-18)	0:41

source : FIVB.org