Top 4 Men, Top 3 Women Left Among AVP Seattle Winner’s Bracket
Action began at the Seattle Open with qualifiers on Thursday and four teams of each gender moving on to Friday’s main draw. At the end of Friday, the top four men’s seeds and top three women’s remain in the winner’s bracket.
Hughes/Ross, Stockman/Larsen Advance to Ostrava Round of 16
The table is set for Saturday’s Round of 16 with pool play and the first elimination round in the books for both genders, with eight of the Top 10 men’s seeds and nine of the Top 10 women’s moving on.
Qualifiers Thole/Wickler Win Pool Title at Ostrava Four Star
Six of the eight men’s pool winners were crowned on Thursday before thunderstorm interrupted the action. Eight women’s pool winners punched their tickets to the second elimination round.
April Ross To Play With Caitlin Ledoux at AVP Seattle, Klineman Rehabs
Two-time Olympic medalist April Ross will be playing with a new partner at least for the weekend while teammate Alix Klineman rehabs an injury according to Ross’ twitter page.
Americans Stockman/Larsen Move on to Ostrava 4-Star Main Draw
Americans Emily Stockman/Kelley Larsen were among the eight teams to move on from the women’s qualifiers, while both USA pairs on the men’s side failed to reach the main draw.
P1440 Announces Star-Studded List of Sponsored Athletes
All nine players, including Latvia’s Alexandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins and Spain’s Pablo Herrara/Adrian Gavira, will be in action and representing p1440 at the FIVB Ostrava Four-Star event in the Czech Republic from June 20-24.
Walsh Jennings/Branaugh, Rosenthal/Budinger Among 4 Gstaad Wildcards
The Swatch Gstaad Major in Switzerland announced its four wildcard entries for the event, which begins on July 10. Two were awarded to American duos and two stayed home with up and coming Swiss pairs.
Mersmann/Tillmann, Doppler/Horst Win Gold at Baden One-Star
Austrians won two of the three podium spots on the men’s side and the silver medal on the women’s side in front of the home crowd at the Baden open.
FIVB World Tour Off-Season Will be Only 4 Days Long in 2018
Montpellier, France opened the 2017-2018 FIVB World Tour season. This year’s tournament in Montpellier will be earlier, but will still only be the second on the schedule.
OG Gold Medalist Bruno Blames Beach VBall’s Amateurism For Break-Up
After 4.5 years together, current Olympic Champions Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt decided to end their partnership
