{"id":37953,"date":"2019-04-04T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=37953"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:24:22","slug":"hermannova-and-slukova-lead-seedings-at-xiamen-4-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/hermannova-and-slukova-lead-seedings-at-xiamen-4-star\/","title":{"rendered":"HERMANNOVA AND SLUKOVA LEAD SEEDINGS AT XIAMEN 4-STAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4, 2019 \u2013 Barbara Hermannova and Marketa Slukova are ranked first as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour moves on to Xiamen in China for a 4-Star tournament that runs from April 23-28 on Guanyinshan Gold Beach.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first 4-Star women\u2019s tournament since The Hague 4-Star in the first week of January. The men\u2019s most recent 4-Star was in the Doha from March 12-16.<\/p>\n<p>Hermannova and Slukova will return to the court for the first time since August 2018 when they won silver at the Hamburg 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals. It completed a run of three tournaments in which they finished on the medal podium.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech duo began by winning bronze at the CEV European Beach Volleyball Championships and followed up with gold at the Vienna 5-Star before completing their sweep in Hamburg. In 2018 they also won gold at the Ostrava 4-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson are seeded two and Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda Santos Lisboa, who beat Hermannova and Slukova to Hamburg gold, are third seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Lower down the seedings Chen Xue, a gold medallist at the Mazury 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, and Xinxin Wang are seeded 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s draw Norway\u2019s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum are seeded first. The pair were the revelation of 2018 and won Hamburg 2018 gold to complete a run in which they won gold at the Gstaad and Vienna 5-Star tournaments and the European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>They ended their year with gold at the Las Vegas 4-Star and then reached the quarterfinals in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s Michal Bryl and Grzegorz Fijalek are seeded second and Latvia\u2019s Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins are seeded third.<\/p>\n<p>Chile\u2019s Esteban and Marco Grimalt, who won back-to-back golds at the Sydney 3-Star and Doha 4-Star, are seeded 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4, 2019 \u2013 Barbara Hermannova and Marketa Slukova are ranked first as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour moves on to Xiamen in China for a 4-Star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37954,"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-37953","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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