{"id":36633,"date":"2019-02-13T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2019-02-13T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T02:55:11","slug":"world-tour-heads-to-visakhapatnam-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/world-tour-heads-to-visakhapatnam-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD TOUR HEADS TO VISAKHAPATNAM FOR FIRST TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Lausanne, Switzerland, January 11, 2019 \u2013 The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will be heading to Visakhapatnam in India for the first time as the leading annual beach volleyball circuit travels to its third stop from February 28 to March 3.<\/p>\n<p>A port city and industrial centre, Visakhpatnam will open its doors to a double-gender tournament to be held at RamaKrishna Beach. It will be the third FIVB beach volleyball event to be hosted by India after hosting Challenger\/Satellite events in 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day event will feature 30 men\u2019s teams from 20 countries, including Austria, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Iran, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States and hosts India.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s tournament, 21 teams from 12 countries will compete, including Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, United States and Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Arash Vakili and Bahman Salamiinjehboroun and Singapore\u2019s Kingsley Tay and Fan Yang Mark Shen are seeded first and second in the men\u2019s tournament, while the Czech Republic\u2019s Martina Bonnerova and Martina Maixnerova and Japan\u2019s Chiyo Suzuki and Yurika Sakaguchi are the top and second seeds in the women\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnerova partnered with Sarka Nakladalova to bag the World Tour Agadir 2-star event silver medal last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC:<\/p>\n<p>AVC Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianvolleyball.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.asianvolleyball.net\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550111613047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHkRdD_7-IT5eun4zrangGnZDkfLA\">www.asianvolleyball.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550111613047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEadQS-rivBpemvHtAujXqAj9VXwQ\">www.Facebook.com\/<wbr \/>AsianVolleyballConfederation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550111613047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGi8zSkKOBpgECSfvLHE6EfXT6pmw\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550111613047000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFlzoce6XoK0TbxwuYEo6ke5kw12A\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/<wbr \/>avcvolley\/?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Youtube: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n<p>AVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne, Switzerland, January 11, 2019 \u2013 The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will be heading to Visakhapatnam in India for the first time as the leading annual beach volleyball circuit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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