The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is back this week with a men's event in Prague, Czech Republic. There are four Canadian men's teams in Prague competing in this tournament. All four teams will enter the tournament in the qualification round.
Canadian Men's Teams in Prague
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Saxton-Redmann |
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Hatch-Schachter |
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Binstock-Reader |
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Van Huizen-May |
Live streams, matches and results after the jump.
Beijing City Skyline (Photo: Wikipedia)
We are still in China on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The Beijing Grand Slam is this week's tournament and for the first time this year, Canada will not have a single team directly entered into the main draw. Four women's teams and three men's teams will be competing in Beijing with two Canadian men's teams waiting on the reserve list. For the third time this year we might see a Canadian team eliminate another Canadian team in the tournament. The last two happened on the women's side of the game with a second round elimination of Lessard-Martin by Broder Valjas in Sanya, China and Lessard-Martin eliminating MacTavish-Rodrigue in the second round of qualification in Brasilia. In Beijing, if Maverick Hatch and Sam Schachter as well as Josh Binstock and Martin Reader win their first round qualification matches, they will be playing each other in the second round.
As always, teams, results, matches and live streams posted below.
Canadian Women's Teams in Beijing
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Bansley-Maloney |
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Lessard-Martin |
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MacTavish-Rodrigue |
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Broder-Valjas |
Canadian Men's Teams in Beijing
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Saxton-Redmann |
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Hatch-Schachter |
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Binstock-Reader |
Live streams, results and brackets after the jump.
Photo: FIVB
It's time for the first Grand Slam event of the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Shanghai is a dual gender grand slam taking place this week and one of the many that is on the schedule before this year's Olympics in London. There are six Canadian teams participating in Shanghai, three men's and three women's. All the teams except one will be in the Qualification round that starts today. Elizabeth Maloney and Heather Bansley have enough entry points to get a direct entry into the main draw and will begin their competition later in the week. As always, results, live streams and matches will be posted below.
Canadian Men's Teams in Shanghai
All the Canadian men's teams will enter the tournament in the qualification round.
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Saxton-Redmann |
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Hatch-Schachter |
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Binstock-Reader |
Canadian Women's Teams in Shanghai
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Bansley-Maloney | (Main Draw) |
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MacTavish-Rodrigue | (Qualification) |
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Lessard-Martin | (Qualification) |
Live streams and results posted after the jump.
Photo: FIVB
This week on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, the women and men are in different countries. As we posted earlier, the men are in Myslowice, Poland. The women this week are in Sanya, China before meeting up with the men again the following week in Shanghai. The Canadian women playing this week on tour are the exact same as last week. This means that like in Brazil, no one will have to go through the country quota. Also like last week, the team of Lessard-Martin will have to play a fellow Canadian team in their first match. This is getting kind of ridiculous. These teams travel half way around the world, don't have to play each other in the country quota only to draw each other again in the qualifier. Last week Annie and Marie had to play Kacie and Julie while this week they play Jamie and Kristina. Also like last week Elizabeth Maloney and Heather Bansley get enough entry points to receive a direct entry into the main draw and won't play until later in the week.
Canadian Women's Teams in Sayna, China
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Bansley-Maloney | (Direct Entry to Main Draw) |
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Lessard-Martin | |
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MacTavish-Rodrigue | |
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Broder-Valjas |
Live streams, match ups and results available after the jump.
The 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in Myslowice, Poland. Photo: FIVB
The second stop on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour for the men is in Myslowice, Poland this week. Just like last week in Brazil, we have five men's teams competing in this leg of the tour. None of the men's teams have enough entry points to gain direct access to the main draw this week so they will all have to go through the country quota go get into the qualification round. There are only five teams so only one match will have to be played. Like last week, it is another matchup between Zbyszewski-Schalk and Van Huizen-May.
Canadian Men's Teams in Myslowice, Poland
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Saxton-Redmann |
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Hatch-Schachter |
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Binstock-Reader |
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Zbyszewski-Schalk |
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Van Huizen-May |
Live streams, results and match ups after the jump.
Photo: FIVB
It's time to go back to the beach! The first event of the 2012 FIVB Swatch Beach Volleyball World tour kicks off this week in Brasilia, Brazil. This dual gender event sees nine Canadian teams competing. After last year, we have a bunch of partner switches on our men's teams. Maverick Hatch and Sam Schachter as well as Ben Saxton and Christian Redmann are the only two teams remaining together from the 2011 season. Rich Van Huizen will be playing with Garret May this season. May will be playing in his first Men's World Tour event after placing 4th at FIVB Junior Worlds last year and 1st in 2010. Returning to the World Tour this year is Matt Zbyszewski (Matty Z). Matty played in five events in 2010 with Josh Binstock, but didn't compete last year. Matty will be partnering this season with Chaim Schalk. Each men's team will have to compete in the country quota in order to get into the qualification round.
The Canadian women's teams do not have to play in the CQ. Four teams will compete in the tournament with Elizabeth Maloney and Heather Bansley getting direct entry into the main draw. Recent Canadian Champions Kacie MacTavish and Julie Rodrigue join Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin as well as Jamie Broder and Kristina Valjas in the qualification round. Broder and Valjas did play the last event of the season (Phuket, Thailand) together in 2011, but competed with different partners for the others.
Canadian Men's Teams in Brasilia
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Binstock-Reader | 194 (CQ) |
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Hatch-Schachter | 336 (CQ) |
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Saxton-Redmann | 360 (CQ) |
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Van Huizen-May | 134 (CQ) |
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Zbyszewski-Schalk | 66 (CQ) |
Canadian Women's Teams in Brasilia
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Bansley-Maloney | 1040 (Main Draw) |
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Broder-Valjas | 90 |
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Lessard-Martin | 320 |
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MacTavish-Rodrigue | 214 |
Best of luck to all the Canadian teams down in Brazil this week. As always, check back to Kill on Two for updated results, scores and live video streams.
Results, match ups and live streams after the break.