Beach Volleyball

Ios, Messina and Geneva are this week’s destinations

Futures in Europe

Article Wed, Jun 18 2025
Author: Guilherme Torres

The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour 2025 season continues to progress at full pace in Europe, and over the next few days, three Futures events will be held simultaneously in the continent for a third-straight week, putting as many as 15 medals in play.

Polish Olympian Piotr Kantor will play in Ios this week

Starting on Thursday and ending on Sunday, double-gender events will be held in Ios, Greece, and Messina, Italy. On the same period, the men will play in Geneva, Switzerland, with 118 teams getting on the sand across the three locations.

In Ios, where matches will take place at the stunning Mylopotas Beach, the men’s tournament will feature 24 teams, which will represent 18 countries – Greece (4), Latvia (3), Austria (2), Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.

Beach Pro Tour Ios Futures – Men

The tournament will count on two Olympians. Polish blocker Piotr Kantor, who represented his country at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo Games, is one of them – he will play with Filip Lejawa. The other two are Austrians Robin Seild and Alexander Huber, who played together in Rio nine years ago and reunited for the 2025 season.

The Urainian Makhno twins Inna and Iryna are coming from a successful campain in Kraków

On the women’s side, 22 duos are entered, coming from 13 different nations. The United States lead the way with five duos, followed by hosts Greece (4), Canada (2), Japan (2), Australia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.

Beach Pro Tour Ios Futures – Women

Lithuanians Ieva Dumbauskaite and Gerda Grudzinskaite, who won medals in two Futures events played this season, and Ukrainian twins Inna and Iryna Makhno, who took gold last week in Kraków, are the favorites to claim the title in the Greek event.

Italian Olympians play at home in Messina

The tournament in Messina will take place on the same week the city hosted a pool in the CEV Beach Nations Cup, and, because of that, the two top Italian men’s duos will continue in the city to play for a few more days at the Piazza Duomo.

Italian blocker Enrico Rossi will try to take the host country to the podium in Messina

A Paris Olympian, left-handed defender Samuele Cottafava will compete alongside Gianluca Dal Corso. Blocker Enrico Rossi, who played in Tokyo 2020, is entered with Marco Viscovich.

Beach Pro Tour Messina Futures – Men

The men’s tournament in Messina attracted 26 teams, which will represent 13 countries. Hosts Italy account for nine of these tandems, with Germany having three, Czechia, Latvia and Slovenia sending two each and Argentina, Australia, Cameroon, Denmark, England, Estonia, the Netherlands and Switzerland one.

Among the women, 24 teams will compete for the title in the Italian event. Just ten countries will be represented at the Piazza Duomo, with Czechia (5), Italy (4), the Netherlands (4), the United States (3), Germany (2) and Switzerland (2) having multiple entries and Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Spain featuring one duo each.

Estonians Liisa Remmelg and Heleene Hollas are the top-seeded team in Italy

Beach Pro Tour Messina Futures – Women

Estonians Liisa Remmelg and Heleene Hollas are the top-seeded team in the event, with Czech twins Katerina and Anna Pavelková appearing in second place. 

Home teams strong in Geneva

The men’s tournament in Geneva could be strongly dominated by the home teams as the four best-seeded duos set to compete this week at La Rotonde du Mont-Blanc hail from the home country – Yves Haussener/Julian Friedli, Marco Krattiger/Leo Dillier, Adrian Heidrich/Jonathan Jordan and Florian Breer/Luc Flückiger.

Tokyo Olympian Adrian Heidrich is one of the players set to represent Switzerland in Geneva

The entry list contains 28 teams from 15 countries. With six duos, hosts Switzerland will have the largest representation, followed by Germany and Italy, with three, Czechia, France, Norway and Slovenia, with two, and Belgium, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the United States, with one each.

Beach Pro Tour Geneva Futures – Men

The three tournaments will follow the same schedule, with qualifiers taking place on Thursday, pool play being held on Friday, the elimination rounds running on Saturday and the medal matches concluding the week 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 international ranking points.

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