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Friday, April 3, 2026
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Players: 13648 10625 24273
Tournaments: 2239 1806 4045
 
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Phillip van Rooyen 57
Reid Hamilton 57
Tatyana Romanovskaya 56
Andrea Petri 55
Kazumi Nakajima 55
Leland Quinn 54
Balogun Adeniyi Abdul Wak 53
Aaron Wintrich 50
Dan Lewis 50
Pavel Karpukhin 48
Troy Ketterling 47
Charlotte Kroyer 47
Grga Trimcevski 46
Paul MacDonald 46
Donal McGraw 46
Areti Teza 46
Jaakko Keskitalo 45
Nanwou Kondi M. 44
Larraine Busch 43
Tjasa Dimec 43
Cesar Castro 42
Tirzah Armenta 40
Viktor Jonsson 39
Chris Fleming 39
Paulius Matulis 38
Dawid Migdalski 38
Kate Eckhardt 38
Lior Cohen 38
Kristel Kiens 37
Kemal Sah 36
Paul Becker 36
Daniel Moreno 35
Lander Vandecaveye 35
David Strobel 34
Roni Entin 34
Valentina Facco 33
Maria Graniero Rodriguez 33
Riley Mallon 31
Alexia Richard 30
Shajunee Gumbs 29
Eva Torruella 29
Kadiatu Conteh 29
Natalie Aston 27
Ai Shigechika 26
Jieun Shin 25
Bechar Salima 25
Maya Dickson 25
Antoon Peeters 24
Markus Mol 24
Julian Hiedl 24
Mercy Likhayo 24
Nathaniel Dickinson 24
Havard Solheim 23
Ainsley Patrick 23
Bryan Cordero 22
Kristoffer Bisgaard 21
Karlotta Kattai 21
Jindi Dong 21
Kirke Lukas 19
Justice Amoa 17
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 1988
Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the AVP Miller Lite Panama City Open.  It was the 88th win for Sinjin Smith, the 64th win for Randy Stoklos, and the 63rd win for the team.
In 2005
Jake Gibb and Stein Metzger won the AVP Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 2nd win for Jake Gibb, the 5th win for Stein Metzger, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2005
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won the AVP Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 37th win for Misty May-Treanor, the 34th win for Kerri Walsh Jennings, and the 32nd win for the team.
In 2011
Erin Gray and Kathryn Piening won the   USAV IDQ #2.  It was the 4th win for Erin Gray, the 4th win for Kathryn Piening, and the 4th win for the team.
In 2016
Nivaldo Diaz and Sergio Gonzalez won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Mexico.  It was the 6th win for Nivaldo Diaz, the 13th win for Sergio Gonzalez, and the 6th win for the team.
In 2016
Kim DiCello and Kendra VanZwieten won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Mexico.  It was the 8th win for Kim DiCello, the 4th win for Kendra VanZwieten, and the 2nd win for the team.
In 2022
Izac Carracher and Mark Nicolaidis won the FIVB Coolangatta Futures.  It was the 1st win for Izac Carracher, the 1st win for Mark Nicolaidis, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2022
Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won the FIVB Coolangatta Futures.  It was the 2nd win for Taryn Brasher, the 2nd win for Kristen Cruz, and the 2nd win for the team.
 
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3/31/2026
World Ranking update: Cottafava & Dal Corso reach top 25 for the first time
Italy’s leading men’s beach volleyball duo – Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso – who won last week’s Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, reached the top 25 of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time. Cottafava & Dal Corso earned 800 ranking points with their Challenge gold in Mexico last week.

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Cottafava & Dal Corso celebrate duo’s first Challenge gold
Top-seeded Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso lived up to their status and triumphed as Nayarit Challenge winners at the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in Mexico. The Nayarit gold was the team’s first at the Challenge level. Previously, they had one silver at the Futures level. Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers settled for silver.

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The Chinese pairing of two-time Olympian Xia Xinyi with Yan Xu brought home its first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour medal since they teamed up for their international debut at the Adelaide 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Seeded fourth in the Nayarit Challenge women’s main draw, Yan & Xia made a solid run of six consecutive wins in Mexico and grabbed gold.

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Hungary’s Doczi & Veress crown duo’s debut with Rarotonga Futures gold
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Spain’s Vergara & Gonzalez on to Nayarit quarterfinals after fourth tie-breaker in Mexico
Spain’s Ana Vergara & Sofia Gonzalez have played four matches at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour so far and had to grind through tie-breakers in all four of them. On Friday, they were successful in both the sixteenthfinals and the eighthfinals to push through to the women’s quarterfinals on Saturday.

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Mexican home favorites to challenge top seeds in Nayarit Challenge eighthfinals
The men’s main draw action at the Nayarit Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour unfolded in full swing on Friday – the second leg of pool play and the sixteenthfinal elimination round were held – to shape the match-ups for Saturday’s eighthfinals, in which the eight pool winners will be challenged by teams that pushed through the first knockouts.

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3/27/2026
USA v Canada and Australia v Hungary in Rarotonga Futures semis
Pairs from Australia, Canada, Hungary and the United States progressed to the semifinals of the men’s Rarotonga Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour taking place this week in the Cook Islands. The semis and the medal matches on Friday, March 27 will be streamed live on the Beach Volleyball World YouTube channel.

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Germans earn their maximum in Nayarit women’s pool play
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