Nuss & Brasher climb back up to number four
Qatar’s Cherif & Ahmed take a selfie in celebration of their Newport Beach gold
The former number one team in the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar has climbed back up among the top two in the chart for the first time in 170 weeks, or slightly over three years and three months. After winning the Newport Beach Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, the Qatari pair ascended two spots from the previous week’s shared fourth place. Meanwhile, the women’s gold medalists of the Newport Beach Elite Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of the United States returned among the top four of their ranking for the first time in well over five months.
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men
Trending Cherif & Ahmed celebrated their second consecutive Elite gold last week, after their triumph in Rio de Janeiro last month. In Newport Beach, they earned their third Elite trophy this year and collected another 1,200 ranking points, netting 880 of them, after their ninth best result was dropped from their account. Thus, their ranking score improved to 7,480 points and they jumped from last week’s fourth place, which they shared with Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso, to this week’s second place, where they stand 1,120 points below leaders Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway.
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Newport Beach Elite runners-up Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci of Brazil also gained two spots in the ranking, climbing from number seven to number five after netting 500 of the 1100 points that came with their silver. They are now 320 points below fourth-ranked reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, who are another 100 points below third-ranked Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands.
Latvia’s Martins Plavins & Kristians Fokerots, who reached the Newport Beach quarterfinals, also moved two spots up the chart, from number 10 to number eight, while Sweden’s Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson, also with a fifth-place finish in the United States last week, stayed put in position six of the World Ranking.
The seventh-ranked Capogrosso brothers, Poland’s Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak in ninth place, and reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia completing the top 10.
Newport Beach bronze medalists Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt of Chile surged from number 32 to number 23, while the other semifinalists, USA’s Trevor Crabb & Taylor Crabb, for whom it was only the second qualifying tournament together, jumped into position 118 in the chart.
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FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women
Former world’s number two team Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of the United States rocketed seven spots up the World Ranking after topping the women’s podium in Newport Beach last week. From last week’s number 11, they are now in number four. They have not been this far up the chart since May 5 of this year, when they dropped their second place. With seven qualifying tournaments behind them, the American pair has collected 6,760 ranking points and stand 720 points below the second place shared between USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft, who finished fourth in Newport Beach, and Brazil’s Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti, who registered a fifth-place finish last week, along with compatriots Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes, who top the World Ranking on 8,320 points in total.
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Another American duo, Julia Donlin & Lexy Denaburg, who celebrated silver in Newport Beach, climbed two spots up the chart to a new high 13th place for the team.
Newport Beach bronze medalists Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) of Brazil continued their rise back up the ranking. The reigning Olympic champions and former number one in the World Ranking jumped another five positions up to number seven, sharing it with Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth. The Italian pair and fifth-ranked Latvians Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova are the only two teams among the top eight that do not represent the United States or Brazil. USA’s Kelly Cheng & Molly Shaw are the third American duo among the top eight after ascending from number nine to number six, following their fifth-place finish in Newport Beach.
Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann and Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre complete the women’s top 10.
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