Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan defeated Nico Beeler and Marco Krattiger of Switzerland 21-15, 16-21, 15-10 to enter the knockout round of the FIVB World Tour Katara Beach Volleyball Cup yesterday. Younousse and Tijan lost their opener against Ryan Doherty and William Allen 18-21, 21-17, 15-8, but they came back strongly to beat the...

Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) are considering the FIVB Katara Beach Volleyball Cup as preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games qualifiers. Qatar has fielded three different pairs for the four-star event with the aim to achieve the right balance for the teams before the Tokyo Games qualification process, which is scheduled to start in September. This...

Cherif Younousse, reunited with Ahmed Tijan after three years, is confident about leading Qatar’s No. beach volleyball 1 team from the front. Younousse and Tijan last played together in the 2014 Doha Open, which was their only second event. And then Younousse paired up with Jefferson Santos Pereira, while Tijan played alongside four different players,...

Doha returns to the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour as the Qatari capital hosts a World Tour tournament for the fourth time, and the first since 2016. The 4-Star KATARA Beach Volleyball Cup runs from March 6-10, but unlike the previous three tournaments the competition will take place at the KATARA Cultural Village rather than...

Two of hosts Qatar’s three pairs will start charting new life on the FIVB Beach World Tour through the upcoming prestigious four-star Katara Beach Volleyball Cup 2018, which will take place at the scenic sandy beach in Katara from March 6 to 10. This is the first time that a four-star status event is being...