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Back in North America for the first time since 2007, the double-gender event marks the eighth time the world tour is visiting Canada and the first time competing in Quebec City. Meeting for the Canadian men’s gold medal as the United States has three teams in the final four for only the second time and first since 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the FIVB Swatch World Tour, will be USA’s top seeded Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers and seventh-seeded Matt Fuerbringer/Nick Lucena. It will be the 12th time in the history of the FIVB Swatch World Tour that there has been an All-American gold medal finale. The last time this happened was in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Aug. 1, 2010 when the same two teams met and Dalhausser/Rogers won in two sets. The ninth of 14 men’s and 10th of 15 women’s internationally-televised tournaments on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour schedule, the FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011 is running parallel schedules for both genders with the 32-team double elimination main draws which started Thursday ending Sunday. The bronze medal and gold medal matches will be played consecutively starting at 1 p.m. on the Quebec center court as the winning pairs in each gender share the $30,000 first-place prizes. Silver medal teams will split $21,000, the bronze $15,000 and the fourth place teams will divide $11,200. The venue for the open tournament in Quebec is the provincial I’Externat St-Jean Berchmans and Seminaire des Peres Maristes in the Quebec borough of Sillery. In the all-American first semifinal, USA’s Fuerbringer/Lucena defeated compatriots and fifth-seeded Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal in straight sets, 21-17, 21-14 in 37 minutes. In their team competition, Fuerbringer/Lucena are now 2-0 against Gibb/Rosenthal. Fuerbringer/Lucena, playing in their 18th career FIVB Swatch World Tour event, are making their third final four appearance and second gold medal match. Playing this entire season so far, Fuerbringer/Lucena have no finish before this year higher than two fifth place finishes to open the season. Since then, they have struggled with two 25th-place finishes, two ninths and two 17ths. In the last semifinal of the evening played before another Quebec center court full house of nearly 5,000 enthusiastic fans, USA’s top-seeded Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers played at a consistently high level to defeat Brazil’s 29th-seeded Alvaro Filho/Moises Santos, 21-15, 21-18 in 39 minutes. Dalhausser/Rogers, 5-0 in Quebec, are playing their 46th FIVB Swatch World Tour event together and are playing in their 35th final four and their 26th career FIVB gold medal match. As a team, Dalhausser/Rogers have won 19 FIVB gold medals. Brazil’s Filho/Santos, playing in their first FIVB Swatch World Tour event together, and Gibb/Rosenthal, who are playing in their 46th world tour event together and are in the final four for the eighth time, will meet in the bronze medal match on the Quebec center court prior to the men’s bronze medal match. Filho, just 20, is playing in his first world tour event after winning the silver medal each of the last two year’s with Vitor Felipe at the FIVB Swatch Junior World Championships for players under 21 years old. After a shaking start in the first set of their semifinal, Dalhausser/Rogers regained control and steadily pulled away. In the second set, the kept the momentum but the energetic Brazilians hung in the battle until the finish. “They certainly didn’t play like they were tired and for a first world tour event as a team and a first world tour event period for Filho, they have done a tremendous job and my hat’s off to them,” said Rogers afterwards. “Other than the start when I got blocked, aced and dug, we felt good and got control and kept it. I wasn’t hitting hard ones very well but my chops were effective and occasionally I landed a hard one to keep them honest. Now we get to play some more old friends in Fuerbringer/Lucena who haven’t played that much together and can be up and down, but when they are up, they can beat anyone in the world, anyone.” USA’s Gibb/Rosenthal started the day with a contender’s bracket quarterfinal win over Sweden’s 21st-seeded Hannes Brinkborg/Stefan Gunnarsson, 21-19, 21-18 in 43 minutes to advance to the semifinals against their compatriots, Fuerbringer/Lucena. Filho/Santos played three times on Saturday, including the semifinal loss to Dalhausser/Rogers. In their earlier matches Saturday, Filho/Santos defeated Brazil’s eighth-seeded Thiago Santos Barbosa/Harley Marques, 21-14, 18-21 and 15-12 in 52 minutes and then in another three-setter in the contender’s bracket quarterfinals, the scrappy Brazilians defeated Latvia’s sixth-seeded Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Ruslands Sorokins, 24-23, 19-21 and 15-13 in 59 minutes. As the FIVB Swatch World Tour has returned to Canada, Canadians started the main draw with four men’s and six women’s teams in the main draw. The last team to be eliminated was in the women’s competition, where Canada’s 10th-seeded Heather Bansley/Elizabeth Maloney finished with a fifth place finish after losing their final match Saturday to Brazil’s Salgado sisters, 21-17, 21-15 in 38 minutes. The highest-finishing men’s team was 28th-seeded Maverick Hatch/Sam Schachter, who ended their successful tournament on Friday with a ninth-place finish. Hatch/Schachter were playing in their first FIVB Swatch World Tour event and Schachter won the 2010 FIVB Swatch Junior World Championship with Garrett May. The FIVB Swatch World Tour previously had tournaments in Canada in Toronto (three from 1998-2000) and Montreal (four from 2002-2007). A total of 97 teams from 29 countries have have been competing in the FIVB Swatch Québec Open Jeep 2011. The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour calendar features 15 women's and 14 men's events, including 12 double-gender tournaments, within all five FIVB confederations plus one special 24-team single-gender women’s test event held August 9-14 at London’s Horse Guards Parade, the venue for beach volleyball at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour is offering $7.64-million in prize money. Twelve of the tournaments are combined men's and women's events, including the World Championships and all six Grand Slam stops. After the FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011, the 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour returns to Europe for the final two of six 2011 Grand Slam double-gender events: July 25-31 in Stare Jablonki, Poland (Mazury Orlen Grand Slam Stare Jablonki 2011) and Klagenfurt, Austria (A1 Grand Slam presented by Volksbank Klagenfurt 2011). The total prize money for each Grand Slam event is $600,000. The FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011 is the 227th women’s event and 266th men’s event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men’s FIVB Swatch World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the first women’s event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. While this is the 25th year that the FIVB has sanctioned international pro beach volley events, it is the 23rd year of the men’s and 20th year of the women’s FIVB Swatch World Tour. Also on-site this week in Quebec is a special production crew from IMG, the company that not only produces the live international telecasts of select matches, but also the weekly FIVB Swatch World Tour highlight show that is syndicated throughout the world. For more information on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org or visit the event website at www.quebecopenjeep.com. | ||||
Saturday, July 23, 2011
USA’s Dalhausser/Rogers & Fuerbringer/Lucena win semifinals for all USA men’s gold medal match at FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
USA’s Dalhausser/Rogers and Fuerbringer/Lucena earn Men’s semifinal spots at FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011
USA's Todd Rogers, left, bump sets the Mikasa for teammate Phil Dalhausser as the top-seeded Americans won two more matches Friday to advance to Saturday's final four at the FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011.
Quebec City, Canada, July 22, 2011—Enjoying the benefits of playing close to home for the first time this season, USA’s beach volleyball tandems Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers and Matt Fuerbringer/Nick Lucena remained undefeated Friday to become the first men’s teams to advance to Saturday’s semifinals as the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour continues at the double-elimination $380,000 FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011, presented by Videotron.
Back in North America for the first time since 2007, the double-gender event marks the eighth time the world tour is visiting Canada and the first time competing in Quebec City.
The ninth of 14 men’s and 10th of 15 women’s internationally-televised tournaments on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour schedule, the FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011 will run parallel schedules for both genders. Action began with country quota playoff matches on Tuesday, single elimination qualification tournaments on Wednesday to determine the final eight spots in the 32-team double elimination main draws which started Thursday and runs through Sunday.
The semifinals will conclude play for each gender on Saturday night and medal matches for each gender will be played Sunday afternoon as the winning pairs in each gender share the $30,000 first-place prizes. Silver medal teams will split $21,000, the bronze $15,000 and the fourth-place finishers dividing $11,200.
The venue for the open tournament in Quebec, which was blanketed with rain showers for over three hours midday on Thursday, is the provincial I’Externat St-Jean Berchmans and Seminaire des Peres Maristes in the Quebec borough of Sillery. Admission is free to Tuesday’s country quota playoff matches as well as Wednesday’s qualification tournaments and ticket information for Thursday through Sunday is available at the event website, www.quebecopenjeep.com or by calling 418.656.3668.
Ticket information for Thursday through Sunday is available at the event website, www.quebecopenjeep.com or by calling 418.656.3668.
Both with 4-0 records in Quebec, USA’s top-seeded Dalhausser/Rogers have earned their 35th final four appearance in 46 career FIVB Swatch World Tour tournaments together while USA’s seventh-seeded Fuerbringer/Lucena, who are playing in their 18th career world tour event, have advanced to the final four for the third time.
Saturday’s matches will include the remaining four matches from the contender’s bracket starting at 1 p.m. to determine the final two teams who will meet the two American teams in Saturday evening’s nationally-televised semifinals, which will run consecutively starting at 6 p.m. on the Quebec center court, where crowds all week have been large and enthusiastic.
Marching to the final four, USA’s Dalhausser/Rogers defeated teams from Brazil and the United States on Friday. Going three sets to secure both of their victories Friday, the 2008 Olympic champions started their day, by defeating Brazil’s eighth-seeded Thiago Santos Barbosa/Harley Marques, 21-15, 19-21 and 15-11 in 58 minutes and in their all-American quarterfinal held under the lights in front of an overflow crowd of more than 4,000 on the Quebec center court, Dalhausser/Rogers beat long-time opponent fifth-seeded Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal, 21-15, 15-21 and 15-12 in their 60-minute quarterfinal win. Dalhausser/Rogers now have a 43-10 record on the 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour and increased their FIVB career record against their American compatriots to 12-5.
With the scored tied four times early in the tiebreaker set and the score at 6-5, Dalhausser made an amazing dig to Rogers who set him up for a kill that gave Dalhausser/Rogers the lead they never relinquished.
USA’s Fuerbringer/Lucena advanced to the final four on Friday by defeating teams from Germany and Latvia. To start their day, they upset Germany’s second-seeded Jonahan Erdmann/Kay Matysik in three sets, 17-21, 21-17 and 17-15 in 62 minutes, the longest match of the day. In their quarterfinal nightcap, the Americans top Latvia’s sixth-seeded Aleksandrs Samoilous/Ruslans Sorokins, 21-19, 21-15 in 37 minutes. Fuerbringer/Lucena have now advanced to their third final four as they are playing in their 18th FIVB Swatch World Tour event together.
“We have played them nearly 60 times counting in the old U.S. domestic series so we definitely don’t fool each other and often it comes down to what it did tonight, who made fewer mistakes and that’s how we were able to pull it out in the third set,” said Rogers following his team’s quarterfinal victory. “We just know each other so well and we didn’t have hardly any mistakes in the first set and then in the second I had four of five hitting errors and that was that. In the tiebreaker, it was close again then we came up with a couple of big plays to give us the two-point lead and we held it from there. The plan is always to win in two sets, but while that didn’t work out today, we will came out on top in both of them and look forward to another challenge in Saturday’s semifinal.”
Besides Latvia’s Samoilous/Sorokins and USA’s Gibb/Rosenthal, the other four teams still alive in the tournament include two teams from Brazil and one each from Georgia and Sweden. Still playing for Brazil are eighth-seeded Thiago Santos Barbosa/Harley Marques and surprising 29th-seeded Alvaro Filho/Moises Santos along with Georgia’s 14th-seeded Renato Gomes/Jorge Terceiro and Sweden’s 21st-seeded Hannes Brinkborg/Stefan Gunnarsson.
As the FIVB Swatch World Tour has returned to Canada, Canadians started the main draw with four men’s and six women’s teams in the main draw. One women’s team, 10th-seeded Heather Bansley/Elizabeth Maloney is the only Canadian team still alive in the tournament. The highest-finishing men’s team was 28th-seeded Maverick Hatch/Sam Schachter, who ended with a ninth-place finish. Hatch/Schachter were playing in their first FIVB Swatch World Tour event and Schachter won the 2010 FIVB Swatch Junior World Championship with Garrett May.
The FIVB Swatch World Tour previously had tournaments in Canada in Toronto (three from 1998-2000) and Montreal (four from 2002-2007). A total of 97 teams from 29 countries have entered the FIVB Swatch Québec Open Jeep 2011.
The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour calendar features 15 women's and 14 men's events, including 12 double-gender tournaments, within all five FIVB confederations plus one special 24-team single-gender women’s test event held August 9-14 at London’s Horse Guards Parade, the venue for beach volleyball at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour is offering $7.64-million in prize money. Twelve of the tournaments are combined men's and women's events, including the World Championships and all six Grand Slam stops.
After the FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011, the 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour returns to Europe for the final two of six 2011 Grand Slam double-gender events: July 25-31 in Stare Jablonki, Poland (Mazury Orlen Grand Slam Stare Jablonki 2011) and Klagenfurt, Austria (A1 Grand Slam presented by Volksbank Klagenfurt 2011). The total prize money for each Grand Slam event is $600,000.
The FIVB Swatch Quebec Open Jeep 2011 will be the 227th women’s event and 266th men’s event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men’s FIVB Swatch World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the first women’s event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. While this is the 25th year that the FIVB has sanctioned international pro beach volley events, it is the 23rd year of the men’s and 20th year of the women’s FIVB Swatch World Tour.
Also on-site this week in Quebec will be a special production crew from IMG, the company that not only produces the live international telecasts of select matches, but also the weekly FIVB Swatch World Tour highlight show that is syndicated throughout the world.
For more information on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org or visit the event website at www.quebecopenjeep.com.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Dalhausser and Rogers Win Battle for Bronze in Moscow
http://usavolleyball.org/news/2011/07/17/dalhausser-rogers-win-battle-for-bronze-in-moscow/43577
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 17, 2011) – The U.S. men’s beach volleyball team of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers came back from a semifinal upset and won a battle for the bronze medal on Sunday at the 2011 FIVB Swatch Moscow Grand Slam in Russia.
Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), ranked fourth, defeated China’s seventh-ranked Penggen Wu and Linyin Xu in the longest match of the men’s tournament, 25-27, 24-22, 17-15 in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
In the semifinals, the U.S. team was upset by Switzerland’s 12th-ranked Patrick Heuscher and Jefferson Bellaguarda, 21-16, 14-21, 15-12 in 53 minutes.
“I should have done a better job in blocking higher," Dalhausser told the FIVB. “But they are a good team. The problem is that there are so many strong teams on the Tour now. We have not been playing that well after I hurt my ankle in Beijing. Physically it is ok, but mentally it might still play a role.”
It was the third time the two teams had met this season, but the first victory for Heuscher and Bellaguarda, who are a new team this year.
In the gold medal match, Heuscher and Bellaguarda fell to top-seeded Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego of Brazil, 21-16, 18-21, 17-15 in 55 minutes.
Dalhausser and Rogers will share $23,000 for third place.
Next week the FIVB Swatch Beach Volleyball World Tour travels to Canada for the double gender $380,000 Quebec Open. The following week the circuit returns to Europe for the final two of six grand slams on the 2011 calendar: Stare Jablonski, Poland (July 25-31) and Klagenfurt, Austria (Aug. 1-7).
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 17, 2011) – The U.S. men’s beach volleyball team of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers came back from a semifinal upset and won a battle for the bronze medal on Sunday at the 2011 FIVB Swatch Moscow Grand Slam in Russia.
Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), ranked fourth, defeated China’s seventh-ranked Penggen Wu and Linyin Xu in the longest match of the men’s tournament, 25-27, 24-22, 17-15 in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
In the semifinals, the U.S. team was upset by Switzerland’s 12th-ranked Patrick Heuscher and Jefferson Bellaguarda, 21-16, 14-21, 15-12 in 53 minutes.
“I should have done a better job in blocking higher," Dalhausser told the FIVB. “But they are a good team. The problem is that there are so many strong teams on the Tour now. We have not been playing that well after I hurt my ankle in Beijing. Physically it is ok, but mentally it might still play a role.”
It was the third time the two teams had met this season, but the first victory for Heuscher and Bellaguarda, who are a new team this year.
In the gold medal match, Heuscher and Bellaguarda fell to top-seeded Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego of Brazil, 21-16, 18-21, 17-15 in 55 minutes.
Dalhausser and Rogers will share $23,000 for third place.
Next week the FIVB Swatch Beach Volleyball World Tour travels to Canada for the double gender $380,000 Quebec Open. The following week the circuit returns to Europe for the final two of six grand slams on the 2011 calendar: Stare Jablonski, Poland (July 25-31) and Klagenfurt, Austria (Aug. 1-7).
Friday, July 15, 2011
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