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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Database Statistics
  Men Women Total
Players: 13640 10622 24262
Tournaments: 2238 1806 4044
 
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Steven Smith 59
Luisa Calheiros 58
Thomas Kohler 55
Fabien Dugrip 50
Everett Matthews 49
Eric Shirley 49
Karolina Danilovicova 48
Dan Stubinski 48
Ilgar Sehiroglu 47
Karolina Zelinkova 47
Steve Corothers 45
Viktoriia Polishchuk 45
Hana Skalnikova 44
Lindsey Fuller 44
Mischa Urbatzka 43
Danguole Liubertaite 42
Jessie Lopez 40
Manuel Serrano 40
Lacey Pauletta 38
Pavlo Mykhalskiy 37
Genie Francisco 37
Sanja Trivunovic 36
Ruta Bukantyite 35
Roman Mares 35
Anne Marie Taylor 33
Raphael Baudin 32
Shu Woon Joo 31
Magdalena Kovacikova 31
Elise Van Hoof 30
Moussa Ilombola 29
Andre Marquis 29
Viktoria Kostogryz 29
Ana Aldape 28
Charanrutwadee Patcharama 27
Nariman Luxor 26
Vladyslav Pavliuk 26
Hallie Wigsten 24
Ulrich Fotso 24
Arnas Pileckis 24
Madalina-Luminita Sandu 24
Izumi Ishihara 23
Gustavs Auzins 21
Tereza Studena 19
Jack Bernardini 17
Paula Krieva 16
Celine Fattouh 16
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 1987
Mike Dodd and Tim Hovland won the AVP Jose Cuervo Clearwater Open.  It was the 29th win for Mike Dodd, the 27th win for Tim Hovland, and the 26th win for the team.
In 1992
Adam Johnson and Kent Steffes won the AVP Miller Lite Fort Myers Open.  It was the 7th win for Adam Johnson, the 18th win for Kent Steffes, and the 3rd win for the team.
In 2009
Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won the AVP Crocs Tour Panama City Beach Open.  It was the 37th win for Phil Dalhausser, the 49th win for Todd Rogers, and the 36th win for the team.
In 2009
Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs won the AVP Crocs Tour Panama City Beach Open.  It was the 8th win for Nicole Branagh, the 43rd win for Elaine Youngs, and the 7th win for the team.
 
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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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3/25/2026
D’Artagnan Potts: Winning My First Gold Medal
Australia’s D’Artagnan Potts and Jack Pearse arrived in Tlaxcala targeting a round of 16 finish but left with their first Beach Pro Tour gold at the second Challenge event of 2026. For Potts, the moment felt almost like the old myth – finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The breakthrough came in what was also the their first Beach Pro Tour final appearance...

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First Round, Highest Stakes
Single elimination has a way of making every point feel heavier. The pressure is palpable. On Saturday, 16 men’s teams and 16 women’s teams will descend upon Manhattan Beach for the first of three AVP League qualification events — a single-day, single-elimination bracket where one loss ends your run. All four courts will stream live on the AVP’s YouTube Channel.

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Nayarit Challenge to serve off on Wednesday with men’s qualifiers
The week after the successful Tlaxcala Challenge, the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stays in Mexico, but moves over to its western coast, where the Nayarit Challenge, the season’s third event of that category, will serve off on Wednesday, March 25, on Varadero Beach in the Nuevo Vallarta resort. The first competition day will offer the men’s qualification matches...

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3/24/2026
Capogrossos back to top 10 in the world
A former number two team in the world – Argentina’s Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso – climbed back up to number 10 in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking after their silver medal finish at last week’s Tlaxcala Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. The Capogrosso brothers had been out of the top 10 for about three and a half months.

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3/22/2026
From qualifiers to gold: Potts & Pearse earn first Challenge medal in Tlaxcala
Australia’s D'Artagnan Potts & Jack Pearse made it from the qualifications all the way to the top of the men’s podium at the Tlaxcala Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. It was the pair’s second consecutive gold on the Tour, after the Coolangatta Futures trophy in Australia last week, and first ever podium in the Challenge category.

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Pavelkova twins conquer Tlaxcala to celebrate first ever Challenge gold
20-year-old Czech twin sisters Katerina Pavelkova & Anna Pavelkova not only conquered their first ever Challenge-level medal on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, but made it shine in gold as they won Sunday’s women’s final in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Previously, the rising Czech stars had a full set of medals in the Futures category.

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Paulikiene & Raupelyte to take on Pavelkova twins in women’s Tlaxcala showdown
Lithuanian Olympians Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte persevered through two tie-breakers on Saturday and made it to their first ever Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour final as a team. In the Tlaxcala Challenge women’s gold medal match on Sunday, they will take on 20-year-old Czech twin sisters Katerina Pavelkova & Anna Pavelkova, for whom it will be the third final on the Tour...

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Aussies to face one another in one of Tlaxcala semis
An all-Australian clash shaped up for one of Sunday’s men’s semifinals at the Tlaxcala Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, as Mark Nicolaidis & Izac Carracher and D'Artagnan Potts & Jack Pearse made their way through Saturday’s eighthfinals and quarterfinals. In the other semifinal in Mexico, USA’s Timothy Brewster & Logan Webber will take on...

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Mar 25-29, 2026 FIVB BPT Challenge Nayarit, Mexico M US$125,000
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Mar 30-Apr 2, 2026 FIVB BPT Futures Tahiti, Pirae Tahiti, French Polynesia M US$5,000
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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
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Apr 29-May 3, 2026 FIVB BPT Elite Brasília, Brazil M US$200,000
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