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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Abdelaziz Khallouf and Tamer Abdelrasoul, the former GCC beach volleyball bronze medallists, are back on the court together. The Qatari players have formed a third pair for the AVC Beach Tour Qatar Master, which is due to begin at the Aspire Park on Wednesday. After the technical committee meeting at 5 pm, the action will...

Qatar’s Julio do Nascimento and Ahmed Tijan put up a brave effort in the opening set before losing their bronze medal match to top seeds Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann in the Asian Beach Volleyball Championship in Songkhla, Thailand on Monday. At the Samila Beach, do Nascimento and Tijan played well and forced extra points...

Qatar’s Julio do Nascimento and Ahmed Tijan lost to Iranian Rahman Raoufi and Bahman Salemi Injehboron in a marathon semi-final match of the Asian Beach Volleyball Championship in Songkhla, Thailand on Sunday. Second seeds do Nascimento and Tijan won the opening set after a prolonged battle. But the Iranians rallied to bounce back and wrapped...

Australians Chris McHugh/ Damien Schumann, who last month won the inaugural men’s Four Nations Cup at Sydney’s Manly Beach and bronze medallists at the Pak Bara Master in Satun two days ago, have been awarded the men’s top seeds at the SMM Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships at Samila Beach, Songkhla between April 14-17. A...

Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younnouse dominated Indonesians Ade Candra Rachmawan and Mohammed Asfiya once again and wrested the second Satun Pak Bara Master 2017, the opening leg of the AVC Beach Tour. Olympians Pereira and Younnouse, who had beaten the Indonesian rivals in the Palembang Open in their previous clash, supported each other admirably...