EuroBeachVolley participants shift focus to Warsaw Futures
Futures in Europe
Just a few days after ending their appearances at the 2023 A1 CEV EuroBeachVolley in Vienna, nine players will switch gears and get back on the court again this week at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures Warsaw-Monta presented by Kyocera.
The eight women and one men who competed last week at the Danube Island will be in action from Thursday to Sunday in the tournament held in Poland, which will reunite 56 teams (28 men’s and 28 women’s) from 22 countries, 16 of which from Europe – Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.
Four of the 12 women’s teams guaranteed in the main draw of the tournament held at the popular Monta Beach Volley Club competed in Vienna last week.
Fourth-seeded Austrians Ronja and Dorina Klinger and seventh-seeded Swiss Menia Bentele and Anna Lutz were 17th, while second-seeded Norwegians Sunniva Helland-Hansen and Emilie Olimstad and third-seeded Polish Jagoda Gruszczynska and Alexandra Wachowicz finished 25th.
Completing the list of 12 teams guaranteed in the main draw in Warsaw are top-seeded Puerto Ricans Allanis Navas and Maria Gonzalez, fifth-seeded Germans Melanie Paul and Hanna-Marie Schieder, sixth-seeded Polish Katarzyna Kociolek and Marta Lodej, eighth-seeded French Clémence Vieira and Aline Chamereau, ninth-seeded Paraguayans Laura Ovelar and Giuliana Poletti, tenth-seeded Lithuanians Gerda Grudzinskaite and Rugile Grudzinskaite, 11th-seeded Polish Malgorzata Ciezkowska and Urszula Lunio and 12th-seeded Polish Agata Ceynowa and Julia Kielak.
Beach Pro Tour Futures Warsaw-Monta presented by Kyocera
Among the men, top-seeded Polish Maciej Rudol, who was with Olympian Bartosz Łosiak in Vienna and will compete with Pawel Lewandowski in Warsaw, in the only EuroBeachVolley participant, having ranked ninth at the Danube Island.
Also entered in the Warsaw main draw are Oman’s Ahmed Alhousni/Haitham Alshereiqi, Poland’s Jedrzej Brozyniak/Piotr Janiak and Filip Lejawa/Szymon Beta, Latvia’s Martins Plavins/Kristians Fokerots, Lithuania’s Artur Vasiljev/Robert Juchnevic, the Netherlands’ Thijs Nijeboer/Mart van Werkhoven, Switzerland’s Immanuel Zürcher/Jonathan Jordan, Czechia’s Vaclav Bercik/Matyas Dzavoronok, Poland's Michal Korycki/Milosz Kruk, Latvia's Ardis Bedritis/Arturs Rinkevics, Belgium's Louis Laenen/Thibault Goset and Czechia's Filip Lejawa/Szymon Beta.
The tournament in Poland begins on Thursday with the qualifiers on both genders, which will have 16 teams competing for the last four spots in the main draw. Pool play will be held on Friday, the elimination rounds on Saturday and the semifinals and medal rounds on Sunday.
The Beach Pro Tour Futures events in Europe are run by the CEV in close cooperation with Volleyball World and provide teams from the continent with several opportunities to compete and gain valuable ranking points during the Olympic qualification period for the Paris 2024 Games.