Duos from Volleyball Empowerment supported Hungary, Australia and Thailand win the lads’s medals, whereas pairs from China and Japan get on the ladies’s podium
- Domonkos Doczi & Bence Attila Streli win Qingdao Futures to say FIVB Volleyball Empowerment supported Hungary’s first ever Seashore Professional Tour gold
- Australia’s Joshua Howat & Luke Ryan and Thailand’s Netitorn Muneekul & Poravid Taovato earn silver and bronze, additionally with assist from FIVB Volleyball Empowerment
- China’s Wang Jingzhe & Mushajiang Aheidan and Jiang Kaiyue & Yu Tong, and Japan’s Asami Shiba & Chika Nakagawa line up on the ladies’s podium
Three groups benefitting from FIVB Volleyball Empowerment assist occupied the complete males’s podium on the Qingdao Futures in China. Domonkos Doczi & Bence Attila Streli (pictured in the primary photograph; credit: hunvolley.hu) earned their first Seashore Professional Tour medal by topping the rostrum on Sunday.
It was not solely Hungary’s second Seashore Professional Tour medal for the weekend, after their compatriots Boldizsar Borbely & Lukas Niemeier claimed silver on the Bujumbura Futures on Saturday, but in addition Hungary’s first Seashore Professional Tour gold ever.
Australia’s Joshua Howat & Luke Ryan and Thailand’s Netitorn Muneekul & Poravid Taovato earned silver and bronze, additionally with assist from FIVB Volleyball Empowerment. Within the ladies’s event, residence pairs Wang Jingzhe & Mushajiang Aheidan and Jiang Kaiyue & Yu Tong, and Japan’s Asami Shiba & Chika Nakagawa, in that order, took the gold, the silver and the bronze.
The Hungarian Volleyball Federation’s seaside volleyball division has been allotted CHF 36,000 in coach assist for his or her males’s duos, educated by Izsak Soos, and one other CHF 5,000 for nationwide staff coaches growth. 21-year-old Doczi and 23-year-old Streli, seeded twelfth within the Qingdao foremost draw, pushed their approach by way of the event on a five-game successful streak, however in three of their matches, together with the final two, they needed to come again from a set down earlier than successful within the tie-breakers. Of their semifinal towards fourth-seeded residence pair Wang Yanwei & Du Hongjun, the Hungarian duo managed a 2-1 (15-21, 21-16, 15-12) win, and within the gold medal showdown, they persevered by way of an epic 2-1 (23-25, 21-18, 18-16) saga to say victory over Eleventh-seeded Joshua Howat & Luke Ryan for the trophy. It was the pair’s first ever gold and first ever podium on the Seashore Professional Tour. With one other companion, Streli took a Cervia Futures silver final 12 months.
Volleyball Australia has to date been granted a complete of CHF 180,000 price of FIVB Volleyball Empowerment coach assist for his or her nationwide seaside volleyball groups. Joey Yigit is on the helm of the nation’s males’s pairs. It was solely the second Seashore Professional Tour look for the Australian pairing of 22-year-old Joshua Howat and 19-year-old Luke Ryan, however they celebrated their first podium, each as a staff and individually. They began their Qingdao marketing campaign from the qualification bracket, however lined up six straight-set wins in a row to succeed in the ultimate. Of their semifinal, the Australian pair produced a 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) victory over second-seeded Netitorn Muneekul & Poravid Taovato.
The Thailand Volleyball Affiliation’s seaside volleyball division has to date been allotted a complete of CHF 216,000 price of FIVB Volleyball Empowerment coach assist and their nationwide groups have been coaching underneath the steering of Brazilian coach Adriana Bento. 22-year-old Netitorn and 23-year-old Poravid bounced again from their semifinal loss with a 2-0 (21-14, 21-11) sweep of the third place match towards Wang & Du to choose up the duo’s first Seashore Professional Tour medal. Poravid has claimed a gold and a silver from a earlier partnership.
Within the ladies’s competitors, 27-year-old Wang Jingzhe, who managed to win gold at 5 of her six appearances on the FIVB Seashore Volleyball World Tour in 2019 together with Wen Shuhui, celebrated her first Seashore Professional Tour gold as she and 23-year-old Mushajiang Aheidan topped the rostrum on the Qingdao 2024 event. It was the primary world-level medal for Mushajiang Aheidan. The fourth-seeded staff from China went by way of the event on a run of 5 consecutive victories with out dropping a single set. They mastered a 2-0 (21-15, 21-17) sweep of their semifinal towards Fifteenth-seeded Asami Shiba & Chika Nakagawa and adopted up with a 2-0 (23-21, 21-17) victory within the closing towards 19-year-old Jiang Kaiyue & Yu Tong, additionally of China.
Sixth-seeded Jiang & Yu, who began their quest for the rostrum from the {qualifications}, reached the ultimate on a collection of 5 consecutive wins, however as many as three of them got here on harm forfeits by different opponents, together with the semifinal towards Eleventh-seeded qualifiers Han Wenqin & Qi Siyu of China. It was the pair’s second Futures silver in a row after they completed runners-up in Qidong every week earlier. For Yu, it was the third consecutive silver medal as she additionally completed second at Could’s Qingshan Futures with a unique companion.
28-year-old Shiba of Japan, then again, earned her second back-to-back (and general third) bronze every week after she and Saki Maruyama completed third in Qidong. This time in a pairing with 29-year-old Nakagawa, Shiba made the rostrum once more after a 2-1 (17-21, 21-16, 15-13) comeback within the bronze medal match towards Han & Qi. It was the primary Seashore Professional Tour medal in Nakagawa’s profession.
27 males’s and 23 ladies’s groups representing a complete of 15 totally different international locations took half within the Qingdao Futures. This week’s Seashore Professional Tour schedule affords one other two Futures occasions, a ladies’s event in Castellon de la Plana, Spain from 18 to 22 September, and a double-gender competitors in Balikesir, Türkiye from 19 to 23 September.
Qingdao Futures: outcomes and standings
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