Qatar’s Jefferson Santos Pereira overcame food poisoning and combined with Cherif Younousse to post the biggest upset during the first round of men’s pool play action at the $600,000 Gstaad Major with a three-set win over Olympic silver medal winners Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai of Italy in Gstaad on Wednesday. Seeded 29th after winning...
Qatar show better fighting qualities in FIVB World League second year
Qatar may have finished seventh in their second year in the FIVB World League but their performance was better than the debut year. In the Group 3 pool last season, Qatar had won three matches – the same number of wins they contrived even this year – to finish 31. This season, they were placed...
FIVB World League: Youngsters spark Qatar to down Venezuela in four sets
Papemaguette Diagne collected 18 points and led Qatar to an exciting 3-1 victory over Venezuela in a Pool D encounter of the FIVB World League Group 3 in Tallinn, Estonia on Sunday. Diagne pulled off 14 smashes and three blocks in his fine individual performance, which inspired four other players to come up with double-digit...
Qatar beat Greece again in FIVB World League
Qatar continued to dominate Greece and posted their second victory in the 2017 FIVB World League Group 3 match in Tallinn, Estonia on Saturday. Wing spiker Ilija Ivoic 13 kills and two aces in 16 points and Nikola Vasic’s 12 pushed Qatar to a straight but hard-fought 25-23 25-21 29-27 victory in the second round...
Progress of Qatari players delights beach volleyball coach Baracetti
Qatar beach volleyball new coach Mariano Baracetti is happy with the progress of his trainees. Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse just bagged the AVC Beach Tour Aspire Qatar Master, their second title on the Asian tour in one month. At the Aspire Park, the Qatari lead pair overcame a stubborn resistance from Australians Chris...
Qatar to host FIVB Beach World Tour event from next year
Qatar will be back on the FIVB Beach World Tour after a year’s gap when a two-star event is staged in February 2018. Qatar Volleyball Association President Ali Ghanim al Kuwari and FIVB Beach Volleyball Director Angelo Squeo signed an agreement in Doha on Saturday. Under the new deal, the QVA will organise the world...
Pereira & Younousse win Aspire Qatar Master with superb fighting qualities
Olympians Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse had to stretch hard before overcoming Australians Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann in the final of the AVC Beach Tour Aspire Qatar Master on Saturday. At the Aspire Park, Pereira and Younousse won the title, the second of the Asian Tour, with a 21-12 27-29 15-13 victory in...
Qatar qualifies for the FIVB worlds; McHugh & Schumann overcome a big scare from Chinese rivals
Top seeds and Olympians Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse of Qatar eliminated reigning Asian Games champions Alexandr Dyanchenko and Alexey Sidorenko comfortably in the quarter-finals of the AVC Beach Tour Aspire Qatar Master on Friday. At the Aspire Park, Pereira and Younousse, the winner of the Satun Pak Bara Master in Thailand last month,...
Qatar storm into last 16 of Aspire Qatar Master
Olympians and top seeds Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse clinched both their group matches and qualified for the elimination round without much ado at the Aspire Qatar Master at the Aspire Park on Thursday. The Satun Pak Bara Master champions Pereira and Younousse proved too hot for Hong Kong’s Lau Tsz Ho Kelvin and...
Qatar 1 & 2 teams start strongly in the Aspire Qatar Master
Top seeds Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younousse of Qatar launched their quest for making it to the second successive FIVB world beach volleyball championship with a one-way victory over Omani team at the Qatar Master on Wednesday. At the Aspire Park, Olympians Pereira and Younousse, who won the Satun Pak Bura title in Thailand...