2017 FIVB BEACH VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – VIENNA
- July 28 to August 6
- Vienna Centre Court, Vienna, Austria
- Co-ed
- Championships
- Event Site
The 2017 Vienna Beach World Championships are coming up this week and the beach World Rankings have been updated since the World Tour event in Olsztyn.
For the men, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena top the World Rankings and come into the World Championships with the #3 seed. So far this season, Dalhausser/Lucena have placed in the top-10 of all World Tour events including two first place finishes in Moscow and Gstaad. The pair brings in a strong dynamic and history of success to the championships. In pool play, they will face fellow American’s John Hyden/Ryan Doherty who have been fairly consistent this season. Coming out of Olsztyn, the pair finished in second place, having some momentum heading into the World Championships.
Alison Cerutti/Bruno Schmidt have some tough shoes to fill as they won the last edition in the Netherlands in 2015 as well as the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. They are just one of the five Brazilian teams to place out of six in the last World Championships, as they took down the Dutch pair of Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst in the title match.
The top-three women’s seed in the World Championships also hold the top-three spots in the World Rankings – Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes (#1), Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude (#2) and Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda ‘Duda’ Santos Lisboa (#3).
Up until recently, the reigning Olympic championships for the women, Kira Walkenhorst/Laura Ludwig, were ranked within the top-10 but after the last World Tour event, they dropped to 21st. Ludwig is working back from shoulder surgery that she had in the off season, proving to be a tough test for the pair in the 2017 season.
The event begins on July 28 and will run through August 6 when the men’s finals take place.
Below you will be the updated World Rankings for the teams in the tournament. (Note, some teams are so new to the rankings or are a new pairing in general that they did not make the list.)
Rankings
Men
| Tournament Seed | Team | Country | Pool | World Rank |
| 1 | Alvaro Filho/Saymon Santos | BRA | A | 2 |
| 2 | Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins | LAT | B | 6 |
| 3 | Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena | USA | C | 1 |
| 4 | Andre Loyola/Evandro Goncalves | BRA | D | 11 |
| 5 | Alison Cerutti/Bruno Schmidt | BRA | E | 8 |
| 6 | Nikita Liamin/Viacheslav Krasilnikov | RUS | F | 5 |
| 7 | Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak | POL | G | 3 |
| 8 | Pedro Solberg/Gustavo ‘Guto’ Carvalhaes | BRA | H | 10 |
| 9 | Pablo Herrera/Adrian Gavira | ESP | I | 9 |
| 10 | Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen | NED | J | 12 |
| 11 | Paolo Nicolai/Danielle Lupo | ITA | K | 4 |
| 12 | Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst | AUT | L | 15 |
| 13 | Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk | CAN | L | 30 |
| 14 | Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin | RUS | K | 7 |
| 15 | Grzegorz Filjalek/Michal Bryl | POL | J | 23 |
| 16 | Sam Schachter/Sam Pedlow | CAN | I | 13 |
| 17 | Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson | USA | H | 22 |
| 18 | Jake Gibb/Taylor Crabb | USA | G | 21 |
| 19 | Dries Koekelkoren/Tom Van Walle | BEL | F | 17 |
| 20 | Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt | CHI | E | 19 |
| 21 | Juan Virgen/Lombardo Ontiveros | MEX | D | 13 |
| 22 | Ryan Doherty/John Hyden | USA | C | 27 |
| 23 | Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse | QAT | B | 26 |
| 24 | Diaz Nivaldo/Sergio Gonzalez | CUB | A | 17 |
| 25 | Thomas Kunert/Christoph Dressler | AUT | A | 34 |
| 26 | Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen | GER | B | 14 |
| 27 | Mariusz Prudel/Kacper Kujawiak | POL | C | 48 |
| 28 | Daisel Quesada/Karell Pina | CUB | D | 45 |
| 29 | Martins Plavins/Heralds Regza | LAT | E | 20 |
| 30 | Edgars Tocs/Rihards Finsters | LAT | F | 63 |
| 31 | Nicolas Capogrosso/Julian Amado Azaad | ARG | G | 38 |
| 32 | Robin Seidl/Tobias Winter | AUT | H | 43 |
| 33 | Ade Rachmawan/Mohammad Ashfiya | INA | I | 53 |
| 34 | Alex Ranghieri/Adrian Carambula | ITA | J | 54 |
| 35 | Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann | AUS | K | 22 |
| 36 | Rahman Raoufi/Bahman Salemi | IRI | L | 48 |
| 37 | Ryan Vandenburg/Aaron Nusbaum | CAN | L | 206 |
| 38 | Patrick Lombi/Abu Bakarr Kamara | SLE | K | – |
| 39 | Mauricio Vieyto/Marco Cairus | URU | J | 89 |
| 40 | Martin Ermacora/Moritz Pristauz | AUT | I | – |
| 41 | Jamaine Naidoo/Leo Williams | RSA | H | – |
| 42 | Gregorio Goyo/Roger Battilana | PAR | G | 94 |
| 43 | Mohamed Abicha/Zouheir Elgraoui | MAR | F | – |
| 44 | Aldevino Nguvo/Justino Tovela | MOZ | E | – |
| 45 | Christaan Varenhorst/Maarten Van Garderen | NED | D | 91 |
| 46 | Andy Alexis Leonardo/Luis Garcia | GUA | C | 138 |
| 47 | Carlos Rangel/Jonathan Golindano | VEN | B | – |
| 48 | Daniel Williams/Marlon Phillip | TTO | A | 87 |
Women
| Tournament Seed | Team | Country | Pool | World Rank |
| 1 | Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes | BRA | A | 1 |
| 2 | Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude | GER | B | 2 |
| 3 | Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda ‘Duda’ Santos Lisboa | BRA | C | 3 |
| 4 | Kira Walkenhorst/Laura Ludwig | GER | D | 21 |
| 5 | Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat | USA | E | 18 |
| 6 | Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova | CZE | F | 5 |
| 7 | Sarah Pavan/Melissa Humana-Paredes | CAN | G | 4 |
| 8 | Barbara Seixas/Fernanda Alves | BRA | H | 6 |
| 9 | Carolina Solberg Salgado/Maria Antonelli | BRA | I | 67 |
| 10 | Tanja Huberli/Nina Betschart | SUI | J | 8 |
| 11 | Taliqua Clancy/Louise Bawden | AUS | K | 7 |
| 12 | Katharina Schutzenhofer/Stefanie Schwaiger | AUS | L | 41 |
| 13 | April Ross/Lauren Fendrick | USA | L | 88 |
| 14 | Kristyna Kolocova/Nichala Kvapilova | CZE | K | 9 |
| 15 | Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson | CAN | J | 14 |
| 16 | Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes | USA | I | 10 |
| 17 | Anouke Verge Depre/Joana Heidrich | SUI | H | 10 |
| 18 | Yuan Yue/Fan Wang | CHN | G | 18 |
| 19 | Kiikka Lehtonen/Taru Lahti-Liukkonen | FIN | F | 17 |
| 20 | Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova | UKR | E | 15 |
| 21 | Margareta Kozuch/Karla Borger | GER | D | 52 |
| 22 | Medelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel | NED | C | 40 |
| 23 | Angela Lobato/Elsa Baquerizo | ESP | B | 172 |
| 24 | Isabel Schneider/Victoria Bieneck | GER | A | 20 |
| 25 | Nicole Branagh/Emily Day | USA | A | – |
| 26 | Lidiannis Echeverria/Leila Martinez | CUB | B | 105 |
| 27 | Julia Gordon/Camille Saxton | CAN | C | 24 |
| 28 | Julia Grossner/Nadja Glenzke | GER | D | 43 |
| 29 | Mashkova/Samalikova | KAZ | E | 37 |
| 30 | Gabriela Filippo/Erika Mongelos | PAR | F | – |
| 31 | Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry | ITA | G | 35 |
| 32 | Eliza Maia/Taiana Lima | BRA | H | 23 |
| 33 | Taylor Pischke/Jamie Lynn Broder | CAN | I | – |
| 34 | Maria Zonta/Ana Gallay | ARG | J | – |
| 35 | Nicole Laird/Jessyka Ngauamo | AUS | K | 165 |
| 36 | Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova | RUS | L | 22 |
| 37 | Varapatsorn Radarong/Tanarattha Udomchavee | THA | L | 28 |
| 38 | Chen Xue/Xinxin Wang | CHN | K | 55 |
| 39 | Gabriela Brito/Norisbeth Agudo | VEN | J | 78 |
| 40 | Charlotte Nzayisenga/Denise Mutatsimpundu | RWA | I | – |
| 41 | Liocadia Manhica/Vanessa Muianga | MOZ | H | – |
| 42 | Manon-Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen van Iersel | NED | G | 66 |
| 43 | Natalia Alfaro/Karen Charles | CRC | F | 169 |
| 44 | Cornelia Rimser/Lena Plesiutschnig | AUT | E | 107 |
| 45 | Mahassine Siad/Imane Zeroual | MAR | D | – |
| 46 | Gaudencia Makokha/Naomie Too | KEN | C | – |
| 47 | Galindo Andrea/Galindo Gorda Claudia | COL | B | 88 |
| 48 | Teresa Strauss/Katharina Holzer | AUT | A | – |
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