Holding the last of three double-gender events on the 2015 portion of the 2016 calendar this week, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) now takes just over two months off from the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. With the qualifying process for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in high gear, the 2016 FIVB World...

Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann finished the year just like they had started it – with a victory. The pair won the Qatar Open, a part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar, shocking top seeds Philip Dalhausser and Nicholas Lucena on Friday. At the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy’s showpiece court in Al Gharafa...

FIVB – Doha, Qatar, November 13, 2015 – Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann ended a long season in the best way possible by winning their second FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour gold of the year, at the Qatar Open on Friday. The German pair defeated Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser 2-1 (21-18, 16-21, 15-13) to...

FIVB – Doha, Qatar, November 13, 2015 – Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann will take on Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser in the Qatar Open final on Friday after both won their semifinals. Fluggen and Bockermann needed to dig deep to defeat USA’s John Hyden and Tri Bourne 2-1 (21-14, 16-21, 15-12) in the first...

German sand spikers Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann stayed on track for their fourth medals of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour making it to the Qatar Open semi-finals. The German sailed past Italy’s Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula with ease for a 21-16, 22-20 win at the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy at Al Gharafa...

FIVB – Doha, Qatar, November 12, 2015 – Lars Fluggen and Markus Bockermann remain on track for their fourth medals of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour after they reached the Qatar Open semifinals on Friday. The German duo overcome Italy’s Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula with a 2-0 (21-16, 22-20) victory that sets up...

Jefferson Santos Pereira and Cherif Younnouse could recover from a poor start and lost the first knock-out match at the Qatar Open FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Tournament at the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy in straight games on Wednesday. The Qatari lead pair was rattled in the beginning by Peter Eglseer and Daniel Müllner, an...