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Saturday, April 4, 2026
Database Statistics
  Men Women Total
Players: 13650 10630 24280
Tournaments: 2239 1806 4045
 
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Claudio Borgiotti 60
Michal Clingman 60
Federico Addiechi 59
Mike Ryan 57
Jennifer Holdren 55
Laurence Salette 54
Juris Gendelis 54
Lai Ming Tong 53
Eva Komang 53
Cary Wendell 52
Alex Padilla 52
Jyri Linnikko 51
Bivin Sadler 51
Betty Renyaan 50
Kim Whitney 49
Patricia Labee 49
Mali Peters 47
Rok Satler 47
Musumba Francis 45
Nenad Tatic 43
Sakip Karali 42
Hamid Agila 42
Pierre-Marie Monneraye 41
Heissell Guandique 41
Christina Koch 40
Jeff Steffens 40
Adam Podstawka 39
Asif Sultan 39
Ibrahim Cadir 38
Grazyna Urbanska 37
Filip Silic 36
Naresh T 35
Laura Emonts 35
Carla Sousa 35
Abolins Armands 34
Letizia Strekelj 33
Denislav Dimitrov 32
Santiago Freire 32
Nikoletta Stylianou 32
Manon Rebuffel 31
Marco Vitelli 30
Burhan Zorluer 30
Ivey Schmitt 30
Angelika Niewinska 30
Anna Zatylkina 29
Asi Samuelu Tevaga 29
Markus Hansen 28
Kyce Martins 28
Juan Menjivar 27
Stan Matingou 26
Juste Derkintyte 26
Donni Argueta 25
Denys Kravchenko 25
Zhaoxin Li 25
Erika Vermette 25
Lyam Krapp 24
Shanadia Sylvester 23
Phavithyranmuni Nagarajan 23
Mario Dampha 22
Yong Khor 21
Linda Abbuhl 19
Hoja Njie 18
Limay Tagliaferro 18
Ruixuan Cui 18
Joaneliz Maisonet 18
Myrto Paschalaki 18
Hugo Felix 17
Henrik Brus 16
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 2004
Sean Rosenthal and Larry Witt won the AVP Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 2nd win for Sean Rosenthal, the 2nd win for Larry Witt, and the 2nd win for the team.
In 2004
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won the AVP Fort Lauderdale Open.  It was the 27th win for Misty May-Treanor, the 22nd win for Kerri Walsh Jennings, and the 22nd win for the team.
In 2010
Aldo Miramontes and Juan Virgen won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Dominican Republic.  It was the 7th win for Aldo Miramontes, the 7th win for Juan Virgen, and the 7th win for the team.
In 2010
Dariam Acevedo and Yarleen Santiago won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Dominican Republic.  It was the 3rd win for Dariam Acevedo, the 4th win for Yarleen Santiago, and the 3rd win for the team.
 
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4/3/2026
Two Hungarian duos join American winners Basey & Hurst on Tahiti Futures podium
Gage Basey & Thomas Hurst of the United States earned their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold at the Tahiti Futures in French Polynesia. Two Hungarian teams – Bence Tari & Lukas Niemeier and Domonkos Doczi & Akos Veress – completed the podium at the single-gender stop with silver and bronze, respectively.

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3/31/2026
World Ranking update: Cottafava & Dal Corso reach top 25 for the first time
Italy’s leading men’s beach volleyball duo – Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso – who won last week’s Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, reached the top 25 of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time. Cottafava & Dal Corso earned 800 ranking points with their Challenge gold in Mexico last week.

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3/29/2026
Cottafava & Dal Corso celebrate duo’s first Challenge gold
Top-seeded Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso lived up to their status and triumphed as Nayarit Challenge winners at the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in Mexico. The Nayarit gold was the team’s first at the Challenge level. Previously, they had one silver at the Futures level. Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers settled for silver.

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Yan & Xia win Nayarit to bring home first Beach Pro Tour gold together
The Chinese pairing of two-time Olympian Xia Xinyi with Yan Xu brought home its first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour medal since they teamed up for their international debut at the Adelaide 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Seeded fourth in the Nayarit Challenge women’s main draw, Yan & Xia made a solid run of six consecutive wins in Mexico and grabbed gold.

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Verena & Thainara and Yan & Xia in Nayarit Challenge gold medal showdown
Three-set semifinal battles on Saturday propelled Brazil’s Verena Figueira & Thainara Feitosa and China’s Yan Xu & Xia Xinyi to Sunday’s women’s final at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. For each of the two pairs, it will be the first final at their third appearance on the Beach Pro Tour as such. The bronze medal playoff in Mexico will set...

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Cottafava & Dal Corso v Elazar & Cuzmiciov, Capogrossos v Luini & Immers in Nayarit semis
Israel’s Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov will take on top-seeded Italians Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso in one of Sunday’s men’s semifinals at the Nayarit Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. In the other, second-seeded Argentinean brothers Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso will face Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers.

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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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