{"id":45561,"date":"2019-08-10T04:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=45561"},"modified":"2019-08-10T04:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:06:15","slug":"suzuki-and-sakaguchi-top-seedings-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/suzuki-and-sakaguchi-top-seedings-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"SUZUKI AND SAKAGUCHI TOP SEEDINGS IN BUDAPEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Budapest, Hungary, August 7, 2019 \u2013 Chiyo Suzuki and Yurika Sakaguchi are the women\u2019s number one seeds for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Budapest 1-Star tournament that runs from August 8-11.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian capital is hosting a World Tour tournament for the first time and it is taking place in a 1,000-seater arena at Lupa Beach which is located 20 minutes from the centre of Budapest. The winning teams in Budapest will collect the \u20ac1,000 first-place prizes and claim 200 Tokyo 2020 Olympic points.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese pair are chasing their fifth World Tour medal of 2019, although they have yet to win gold following one silver and three bronze. Their most recent success came at the Qidong 2-Star where they finished third.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Francesca Kirwan and Olivia MacDonald are seeded second and the Netherlands\u2019 Emi van Driel and Ra\u00efsa Schoon third.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s competition Mihails Samoilovs and Aleksandrs Solovejs top the seedings. The Latvians are competing in their second World Tour event together having previously competed at the Edmonton 3-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Their compatriots Toms Smedins and Haralds Regza are seeded second, the Czech Republic\u2019s Marcel Myslivecek and Martin Pihera are seeded third, while Hungary\u2019s highest ranked men are Art\u00far Haj\u00f3s and Bal\u00e1zs Benk who are seeded 10th.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45563\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22-600x592.jpg 600w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2-22-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/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>Budapest, Hungary, August 7, 2019 \u2013 Chiyo Suzuki and Yurika Sakaguchi are the women\u2019s number one seeds for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Budapest 1-Star tournament that runs from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45562,"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-45561","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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