Van der Loo & Sengers, Ghigliazza & Abdala win Ios Futures to pick up first Beach Pro Tour golds

Sam van der Loo & Mees Sengers of the Netherlands and Agostina Ghigliazza & Morena Abdala of Argentina won their duos’ first gold medals on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, topping the Ios Futures podiums in Greece on Sunday. Stavros Ntallas & Dimitrios Chatzinikolaou delighted the home crowd by earning the men’s silver, while Germany’s Charlie Peters & Colin Paszkiewicz picked up bronze. France’s Anouk Dupin & Marine Kinna and Latvia’s Liva Ebere & Deniela Konstantinova completed the women’s lineup of medalists.

Sam van der Loo & Mees Sengers crowned their first appearance on the Beach Pro Tour together with the Ios Futures trophy. While Van der Loo had one gold and three silvers on the Beach Pro Tour in the past, for Sengers, this was the first podium. He did, however, have a silver from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In Ios, the third-seeded Dutch duo did not lose any of the five matches played. In the semifinals, they put together a 2-1 (21-18, 18-21, 15-10) win over second-seeded Jakub Krzeminski & Aleksander Czachorowski of Poland, and then mastered a 2-0 (21-14, 21-19) sweep of the final against fourth-seeded home favorites Stavros Ntallas & Dimitrios Chatzinikolaou.

For Ntallas & Chatzinikolaou, the Ios silver was the first Beach Pro Tour medal. They earned it with a victorious run of four consecutive matches, decorated with a nail-biting 2-1 (18-21, 21-13, 17-15) semifinal comeback against German qualifiers Charlie Peters & Colin Paszkiewicz.

Peters and 19-year-old Paszkiewicz lost only two of their eight games in Ios, both to Ntallas & Chatzinikolaou. The 12^th-seeded Germans claimed their first Beach Pro Tour hardware with a 2-0 (21-13, 21-13) shutout of Krzeminski & Czachorowski in the bronze medal playoff.

Argentina’s Agostina Ghigliazza & Morena Abdala triumphed in the women’s tournament to bring home their first Beach Pro Tour gold and second medal, after the bronze they picked up at the Sveti Vlas Futures earlier this month. The bracket leaders won all five of their matches in Ios, decorating their winning streak with a 2-1 (23-25, 21-17, 15-11) turnaround in the semifinal against fifth-seeded Eszter Vasvari & Zsofi Vasvari of Hungary and a 2-1 (21-15, 12-21, 15-8) victory over sixth-seeded Anouk Dupin & Marine Kinna of France in the gold medal showdown.

With the Ios silver, the French pairing collected a full set of Beach Pro Tour medals, after the gold and the bronze Dupin & Kinna claimed together in 2025. They reached the final in Greece on a perfect run of four straight-set victories, which peaked with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) sweep of their semifinal against third-seeded Latvians Liva Ebere & Deniela Konstantinova.

18-year-old Ebere and 20-year-old Konstantinova claimed their first Beach Pro Tour medal by winning the bronze medal game against Vasvari & Vasvari by 2-1 (21-14, 17-21, 15-9).

28 men’s and 25 women’s duos representing 18 different federations took part in the Ios Futures.

The next Futures stops on the Beach Pro Tour will be held in Hangzhou, China, in Balikesir, Turkiye, in Bridlington, United Kingdom and in Geneva, Switzerland (men only) from June 25 to 28.

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