Doha: The FIVB World Tour moves to Doha for the Men’s FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Open which will kick off today at the Al Gharafa Stadium with the qualification round.
The event, which will end on November 8, is the penultimate Open event of the year, before the Mangaung Open in South Africa from December 9 to 14. It will be the first FIVB World Tour event to be hosted by Qatar.
The Doha Open begins just two days after the end of the Paraná Open in Argentina, which saw Canada’s Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter claim men’s gold, while Brazil’s Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes claimed their fourth consecutive gold medals in the women’s competition.
Implemented in 2013, the format of all the FIVB Beach Volleyball international tournaments – whether FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam or FIVB Beach Volleyball Open – is the same, featuring pool play followed by single elimination knockout rounds.
Action begins today at 3.30pm on the four courts and 56 teams from all over the world will be seen in action.
The hosts will be represented by four teams at the five-day championship. The Qatari teams will comprise of Jefferson and Thiago, Mahmoud Essam and Asef Sultan, Tamer Abderasool and Abdulaziz Khalouf, besides Ahmed Tijan and Sherif Younis.
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FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Schedule
4 Nov: Qualification 3.30-10.30pm
5 Nov: Pool Play Round 10am-10.30pm
6 Nov: Pool Play Round 3-10.30pm
7 Nov: Quarterfinals 3-9.00pm
Ist Semi-finals 10.00am
2nd Semi-finals 11.00am
8 Nov: Bronze Medal 4.00pm
Final 5.00pm
Awarding Ceremony 6.00pm
FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Teams
Joshua Court and Damien Schumann (AUS); Peter Eglseer and Daniel Müllner (AUT); Daniel Hupfer and Julian Hörl (AUT); Thomas Kunert and Christoph Dressler (AUT); Leonid Gritsai and Bernardo Wermelinger Romano (AZE); Meilton Moises Santos Merces and Iaroslav Rudykh (AZE); Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA); Evandro Gonçalves and Oliveira Júnior Pedro Solberg Salgado (BRA); Gustavo Albrecht Carvalhaes and Allison Cittadin Francioni (BRA); Marcio Henrique Barroso Araujo and Fabio Luiz de Jesus Magalhães (BRA); Ricardo Alex Costa Santos and Emanuel Rego (BRA); Vitor Gonçalves Felipe and Álvaro Morais Filho (BRA); Josh Binstock and Sam Schachter (CAN); Maverick Hatch and Garrett May (CAN); Michael Plantinga and Cameron Wheelan (CAN); Likejiang HA and Jian Bao (CHN); Zhuoxin Li and Lizeng Zhang (CHN); Jiaxin Wu and Cong YANG (CHN); Jan Dumek and Robert Kufa (CZE); Martin Olesen and Peter Dilling Kildegaard Andersen (DEN); Jake Sheaf and Chris Gregory (ENG); Christian García and Francisco Alfredo Marco (ESP); Francisco Tomás and César Menéndez Ortego (ESP); Youssef Krou and Edouard Rowlandson (FRA); Yannick Salvetti and Jean-Baptiste Daguerre (FRA); Max Betzien and Niklas Rudolf (GER); Tim Holler and Jonas Schröder (GER); Bennet Poniewaz and David Poniewaz (GER); Edward Seidu and Ajanako Jonathan Scott Sarpong (GHA); Kotsilianos Georgios and Zoupani Nikos (GRE); Saber Hoshmand and Bahman Salemiinjehboroun (IRI); Iman Karaminezhad and Behnam Tavakoli (IRI); de angeli paolo and Emanuele Monduzzi (ITA); Paolo Ingrosso and Matteo Ingrosso (ITA); Enrico Rossi and Marco Caminati (ITA); Andrea Tomatis and Alex Ranghieri (ITA); Vladislav Pustynnikov and Sergey Bogatu (KAZ); Dmitriy Yakovlev and Alexey Kuleshov(KAZ); Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Toms Smedins (LAT); Elias ABI CHEDID and Joe El Azzi (LIB); Oivind Hordvik and Geir Eithun (NOR); Stian Opsahl and Ole Bastian Nordstrand (NOR); Michael Watson and Sam O’Dea (NZL); Haitham Alshereiqi and Ahmed Alhousni (OMA); Maciej Kosiak and Michal Bryl (POL); Khallouf Abdelaziz and Tamer Abdelrasoul (QAT); Ahmed Tijan and Cherif Younousse (QAT); Tiago De J Santos and Jefferson Santos Pereira (QAT); Assam Mahmoud and Sultan Asif (QAT); Konstantin Semenov and Serguei Prokopiev (RUS); Mats Kovatsch and Jonas Kissling (SUI); Volkan GÖGTEPE and Murat Giginoglu (TUR); Hasan Huseyin Mermer and Selçuk Sekerci (TUR); Oleksiy Denin and Sergiy Popov (UKR); William Montgomery and Jeremy Casebeer (USA); Derek Olson and Stafford Slick (USA); Clay Paullin and Steven Vander Werp (USA); Adam Roberts and Trevor Crabb (USA)
