After a very short week, the 2015 Beachvolleyball Championships of the Netherlands are almost finished yet, and the last balls are played in Rotterdam designing the new Beachvolleyball Worldchampions.
As traditionally, the brazilian teams were very strong with 3 of the four best teams in the women's category and even finishing with 3 teams on the podium. What a domination !!
The men's category, was a little bit more equilibrated with "only" 2 of the best 4 teams, but both teams also finishing on the podium. In both categories, Brazil finally made 5 of 6 possible podium finishes. UNBELIEVABLE and never seen before !!
As 2014 saw the reunion of the legendary team Ricardo-Emanuel, ranking 1-2 in almost every FIVB World Tour category, all beachvolleyball enthousiasts were very excited to see if the two "oldies" could still do it. After a 2011 and 2013 world championship with the two partners not playing together but finishing very strong (Championship title for Emanuel in 2011 in Rome and 2nd place for Ricardo in 2013), everyone was excited to see if they could still perform on this
level. Unfortunately, for Ricardo-Emanuel, the tournament was over before the quarterfinals, but they lost in 3 sets against Lucena-Brunner from the States, finishing among the best four teams.
But perhaps, with the old double KO system, they would have continued a little bit further. Even if the system is the same for everybody, the elimination in the tournament is too fast without a second chance.
But even without Ricardo-Emanuel, the final will be very exciting with Nummerdor-Varenhorst, pushed strongly by their home public, against the brazilian team Alison-Bruno Schmidt (no no, it's no german), Alison "The Mammoth" having been world champion in 2011 with Emanuel Rego.
In the women's category, with the strong brazilian domination, the competition saw the german teams less strong as normally, with only Holtwick-Semmler going to the semi-finals, but finally finishing 4th. All other german teams having lost their games in the round of 32, the german beachvolleyballsport needs a little bit of reconstruction.
The same story arrived to the dutch teams, with a best result for Meppelink-Iersel at the 9th overall ranking (out before the quarterfinals), and so Netherlands, that seemed to have done good work over the past 3-4 years with their women's-teams, could not benefit from the support of their home public.
Small comment also for the two cuban teams that get qualified for the World Championships: Lianma-Leila finished on 33th place and Gonzalez-Nivaldo on a quite good 9th place in final standings.
So GO CUBA !! and BRAVO BRAZIL !!
As traditionally, the brazilian teams were very strong with 3 of the four best teams in the women's category and even finishing with 3 teams on the podium. What a domination !! The men's category, was a little bit more equilibrated with "only" 2 of the best 4 teams, but both teams also finishing on the podium. In both categories, Brazil finally made 5 of 6 possible podium finishes. UNBELIEVABLE and never seen before !!
As 2014 saw the reunion of the legendary team Ricardo-Emanuel, ranking 1-2 in almost every FIVB World Tour category, all beachvolleyball enthousiasts were very excited to see if the two "oldies" could still do it. After a 2011 and 2013 world championship with the two partners not playing together but finishing very strong (Championship title for Emanuel in 2011 in Rome and 2nd place for Ricardo in 2013), everyone was excited to see if they could still perform on this
level. Unfortunately, for Ricardo-Emanuel, the tournament was over before the quarterfinals, but they lost in 3 sets against Lucena-Brunner from the States, finishing among the best four teams.
But perhaps, with the old double KO system, they would have continued a little bit further. Even if the system is the same for everybody, the elimination in the tournament is too fast without a second chance.
But even without Ricardo-Emanuel, the final will be very exciting with Nummerdor-Varenhorst, pushed strongly by their home public, against the brazilian team Alison-Bruno Schmidt (no no, it's no german), Alison "The Mammoth" having been world champion in 2011 with Emanuel Rego.
In the women's category, with the strong brazilian domination, the competition saw the german teams less strong as normally, with only Holtwick-Semmler going to the semi-finals, but finally finishing 4th. All other german teams having lost their games in the round of 32, the german beachvolleyballsport needs a little bit of reconstruction.
The same story arrived to the dutch teams, with a best result for Meppelink-Iersel at the 9th overall ranking (out before the quarterfinals), and so Netherlands, that seemed to have done good work over the past 3-4 years with their women's-teams, could not benefit from the support of their home public.
Small comment also for the two cuban teams that get qualified for the World Championships: Lianma-Leila finished on 33th place and Gonzalez-Nivaldo on a quite good 9th place in final standings.
So GO CUBA !! and BRAVO BRAZIL !!
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