Teams from across EEVZA to compete at zonal event in Kloogaranna

The 2024 EEVZA Beach Volleyball Tour gets underway this coming weekend (June 20-22) with an event due to take place in Kloogaranna, Estonia. In addition to players representing the host nation, strong teams from Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine will be competing in the Baltic country as well. 

Tallinn, Estonia, June 19, 2024. The 2024 EEVZA Beach Volleyball Tour gets underway this coming weekend (June 20-22) with an event due to take place in Kloogaranna, Estonia. In addition to players representing the host nation, strong teams from Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine will be competing in the Baltic country as well. 

The competition will begin with the qualification rounds on Thursday, followed by the first rounds of the men’s Main Draw later in the evening. The first stage of the Main Draw concludes on Friday, and it will be followed by the playoffs. On Saturday, only the top four pairs in each gender will return to the court to fight for the medals. 

In 2023, the top honours at the Mati Vetevool Memorial Tournament were claimed by the Lithuanian duo Mantas Donela and Karolis Palubinskas – who are returning to Kloogaranna this weekend. Urmas Piik and Dimitriy Korotkov, Estonia’s top side last year courtesy of their third place, and Mihkel Nuut/Karl Maidle, who played Piik/Korotkov in the final of the Standard Summer Tour’s opening stage at the Škoda Rakvere Cup, will be carrying the hopes of home success. In Rakvere, Nuut and Maidle came out on top with a 2-0 victory. From Latvia, Olivers Bulgacs and Markuss Graudins will take to the court. 

In the women’s tournament, Estonia’s Eva Liisa Kuivonen/Liisa-Lotta Jürgenson, the top seed of the tournament, will compete for the top prize. The main competition for Kuivonen and Jürgenson is expected to come from foreign pairs, and namely from the Lithuanian duos Ariana Rudkovskaja/Skalve Krizanauskaite and Irina Zobnina/Liubov Zobnina, the Latvian pair Varvara Brailko and Marta Vildere, and the Ukrainians Yeva Serdiuk/Daria Romaniuk. Based on the rankings, the second-best Estonian women’s pair in the Mati Vetevool Memorial Tournament is Maret Kuuse and Laura-Liisa Maiste, the no. 7 seed in the Main Draw. 

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