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Thursday, April 2, 2026
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Players: 13646 10622 24268
Tournaments: 2239 1806 4045
 
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Carol Laimer 66
Rick Macaya 60
Patrick McAneeny 57
Chris Clark 57
Conrad Leinemann 55
Jerry Graham 55
Chiho Miyaji 55
Gadija Jappie 52
David Jones 52
Scott Hill 50
Curt Lee 50
Charlie Stout 48
Girts Salmins 46
Meghan Law 45
Dragana Krstovic 45
Jeremy Oullette 45
Michael Rhoads 44
Michael Bleiker 44
Ola Kvist 44
Maria Papadaki 44
Alexander Shapranovich 43
Rafael Camacho 42
Verun Tahiliani 41
Timo Wilhelm 40
Martin Bohm 39
Ingars Ivanovs 39
Corey Dobridnia 39
Leilani Ramsey 38
Matej Herich 36
Jake Sheaf 36
Bartlomiej Kujawiak 35
Jonathan Paulk 33
Adelle Buede 33
Diana Nikolova 33
Alexandra Bagiova 32
Jordan Lichtsinn 32
Sierra Sanchez 31
Diana Sanchez 31
Wati Laure 30
Kelsey Veltman 30
Logan Smith 30
Nadezda Makroguzova 29
Lukasz Cyran 29
Ricardo Moreno 29
Ainadino Martinho 29
Nika Benedik Bevc 28
Xinxin Wang 28
Connor Millias 27
Dimitrios Volitakis 26
Suzan Gedikoglu 26
Nsangou Lamine 24
Brianna Mears 23
Kayla Mears 23
Lukas Olsansky 22
Siiri Ruohonen 22
Jelle De Hert 22
Jed Walker 22
Bruno Fridstrom 20
Martin Odermatt 18
Alexandra Gusarova 18
Lim Qian 18
Dominic Durant 18
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 1995
Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes won the AVP Miller Lite Fort Myers Open.  It was the 103rd win for Karch Kiraly, the 74th win for Kent Steffes, and the 62nd win for the team.
In 2006
Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal won the AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 6th win for Jake Gibb, the 3rd win for Sean Rosenthal, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2006
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won the AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 54th win for Misty May-Treanor, the 50th win for Kerri Walsh Jennings, and the 48th win for the team.
In 2023
Likejiang Ha and Jiaxin Wu won the FIVB BPT Futures Coolangatta Beach.  It was the 4th win for Likejiang Ha, the 4th win for Jiaxin Wu, and the 4th win for the team.
In 2023
Stefanie Fejes and Jana Milutinovic won the FIVB BPT Futures Coolangatta Beach.  It was the 1st win for Stefanie Fejes, the 1st win for Jana Milutinovic, and the 1st 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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3/29/2026
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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Yan & Xia win Nayarit to bring home first Beach Pro Tour gold together
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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Verena & Thainara and Yan & Xia in Nayarit Challenge gold medal showdown
Three-set semifinal battles on Saturday propelled Brazil’s Verena Figueira & Thainara Feitosa and China’s Yan Xu & Xia Xinyi to Sunday’s women’s final at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. For each of the two pairs, it will be the first final at their third appearance on the Beach Pro Tour as such. The bronze medal playoff in Mexico will set...

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Cottafava & Dal Corso v Elazar & Cuzmiciov, Capogrossos v Luini & Immers in Nayarit semis
Israel’s Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov will take on top-seeded Italians Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso in one of Sunday’s men’s semifinals at the Nayarit Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. In the other, second-seeded Argentinean brothers Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso will face Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers.

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3/28/2026
Hungary’s Doczi & Veress crown duo’s debut with Rarotonga Futures gold
Hungary’s Domonkos Doczi & Akos Veress crowned their Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour debut as a team with Rarotonga Futures gold. Charles Siragusa & Alex Ukkelberg of the United States and Steven Abrams & Cameron Chadwick of Canada completed the podium at the men’s stop in the Cook Islands with silver and bronze, respectively.

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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
The four German teams competing in the Nayarit Challenge women’s main draw on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in Mexico reached their best possible results in Thursday’s pool play, with the only damages they conceded coming from “friendly fire”. Thus, three of them won their pools and joined another five teams with direct tickets to the second elimination round, the eighthfinals...

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Nemec & Petruf and Bedritis & Rinkevics deliver upsets in Nayarit Challenge main draw openers
Lubos Nemec & Adrian Petruf of Slovakia and Ardis Bedritis & Arturs Rinkevics of Latvia were the only two teams that managed to break the seeding in their opening men’s main draw matches at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in Mexico on Thursday. Slovakia’s Lubos Nemec & Adrian Petruf, who came into pool play as the top-seeded team of the qualification bracket...

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3/26/2026
Women’s turn to hit the sand in Nayarit on Thursday
After the successful Tlaxcala Challenge in Mexico last week, the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stayed in the North American country, but moved over to its western coast, where the Nayarit Challenge, the season’s third event of that category, served off on Wednesday, March 25, with the men’s qualifiers. It is the women’s turn to hit the sand on Varadero Beach in the Nuevo Vallarta resort...

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Mar 30-Apr 2, 2026 FIVB BPT Futures Tahiti, Pirae Tahiti, French Polynesia M US$5,000
Apr 8-12, 2026 FIVB BPT Elite Saquarema, Brazil M US$200,000
Apr 8-12, 2026 FIVB BPT Elite Saquarema, Brazil W US$200,000
Apr 17-19, 2026 AVP AVP Heritage Contender Series Austin Open, Texas M&W TBD
Apr 17-19, 2026 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Costa Rica, TBD M TBD
Apr 17-19, 2026 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Costa Rica, TBD W TBD
Apr 29-May 3, 2026 FIVB BPT Elite Brasília, Brazil M US$200,000
Apr 29-May 3, 2026 FIVB BPT Elite Brasília, Brazil W US$200,000
May 7-10, 2026 FIVB BPT Futures Madrid, Spain M € 5,000
May 8-10, 2026 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic M TBD



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