Fans to return when Beach Volleyball Pro Tour stops in Baden in late August

After two years without any audience in attendance due to restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, fans will finally return to flock to the venue set up at the Weilburgpark in Baden. This is where international Beach Volleyball competition returns in about a month – with a Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures (August 24-28) followed by the 2022 edition of the Austrian Beach Volleyball Championships from September 2-4, 2022.

As many as 400 tickets per day will be available for fans to follow the action on site, next to another 200 for VIP guests. Apart from watching Beach Volleyball of the finest quality, the fans will have access to the iconic Strandbad Baden as well.

“We can look forward to two great entertaining weekends in an exclusive setting. Nowhere can fans be so close to the players and action as they are in Baden,” says the chief of the local Organising Committee, Dominik Gschiegl. Daily tickets, with prices standing at € 15, are available here http://www.beachvolleyball-baden.at/tickets/.  

Last year, Baden did host an event scheduled for the 2^nd Round of the Olympic-qualifying CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup. A year earlier, in 2020, Robin Seidl and Philipp Waller claimed gold at the World Tour Baden Open. The Austrian duo, representing the Baden Beach Volleyball Club, finished ninth in the World Championships held in Rome earlier this year – where they lost to eventual world champions Anders Mol/Christian Sørum from Norway. Seidl and Waller finished in fifth place at the Beach Pro Tour Challenge in Doha, but they are yet to claim an international medal this season.

The newly formed duo Julian Hörl and Alexander Horst have been enjoying a fabulous campaign this year, finishing fifth at the Pro Tour Elite event recently held in Gstaad a few weeks after securing gold at the Futures run in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Horst won the Baden event in 2018 and 2019 together with former partner Clemens Doppler.

Martin Ermacora and Moritz Pristauz have already won two medals this year with bronze in Doha and silver in Espinho – where they recently lost to Poland’s elite duo Michal Bryl/Bartosz Losiak.

Austrian sisters Dorina and Ronja Klinger celebrated their first international triumph earlier this year in Ios, Greece, where they emerged victorious without dropping a single set. Their resume includes another four top 10 finishes. Katharina Schützenhöfer and Lena Plesiutschnig, on the other hand, are still waiting for their first elusive Pro Tour medal. In 2019, they won gold in Baden.

Beach Volleyball competition has been taking place uninterruptedly in Baden since 2005.