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Big names and up-and-comers are set to be on their mettle when the 2021 Asian Senior Beach Volleyball Championships will kick off on Tuesday, November 23 at Bang Tao Beach, Phuket, known as one of the world’s finest beach destinations, with fine white sands, nodding palm trees, glittering seas and lively town.

Following a great success in hosting the previous edition last year in Udon Thani, Thailand remains the competition venue for the double-gender Asian Championships between November 23 to 27, 2021. It will be the sixth time the country of volleyball lovers has held the annual competition since its debut organisation in 2005 in Songkhla. Thailand also hosted the following editions – 2007 (Songkhla), 2017 (Songkhla), 2018 (Satun) and 2020 (Udon Thani).

This year, the five-day event will take place at pretty-deserted Bang Tao Beach within the Laguna Phuket Resort Complex which spans 6 kilometres in length, making it the second-longest beach on Phuket’s west coast after Mai Khao Beach.

FIVB World No.1 Ahmed Tijan/Cherif Younousse, who performed brilliantly to win bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the first Olympic medal for Qatar and the first-ever beach volleyball medal in the Arab world and Asia since the Olympic beach volleyball debut in 1996 in Atlanta, will return to prove their worth at the Asian meet.

The Qatari top seeds had already captured the Asian title for two times in a row in 2018 in Thailand and 2019 in China aside from handing Qatar the first beach volleyball gold in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.