Elite16 - João Pessoa, BRA - 2025

Evandro & Arthur Lanci delight home crowd with Joao Pessoa gold

France’s Bassereau & Aye and Netherlands’ Boermans & De Groot complete the podium

Published 09:16, 21 Sept 2025

Evandro/Arthur Lanci (BRA) vs. Bassereau/Aye, C. (FRA) - Final 1st Place #60383162

Brazilian favorites Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci, seeded sixth in the men’s main draw, triumphed in the home sand of the Joao Pessoa Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour on Sunday, claiming the pair’s fourth gold and seventh medal overall on the Tour. Apparently, playing in front of a Brazilian crowd works well for Evandro & Arthur Lanci as they have won all their four gold medals so far, while playing in their home country.

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France’s Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye, who started their journey in Joao Pessoa from the qualifiers and were then seeded 21^st in the 24-team main draw, made it all the way to the final and collected silver, their first Elite-level medal together and their second on the Tour, after the Baden Challenge bronze last month.

Second-seeded Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands settled for bronze, their 11^th podium finish on the Beach Pro Tour.

The 2025 Joao Pessoa Elite men's podium

Evandro & Arthur Lanci stormed the first set of the gold medal match on a 5-0 run. Bassereau & Aye battled back, but were only able to get back to within two. The Brazilians broke away again and kept the pressure until Evandro closed the set at a six-point margin. The second set was much more competitive. The lead went back and forth before the set was pushed to overtime. As the French denied as many as five Brazilian match points and wasted s set point of their own, it went really deep until an out-of-bounds shot by Aye converted the sixth Brazilian match point to a 2-0 (21-15, 27-25) victory. Evandro put away a match-high 19 points, including three kill blocks, while Arthur Lanci added another 16, including two aces. For the French duo, Bassereau led the way with 18 points, including three blocks, while Aye finished with eight, all in attack.

Evandro/Arthur vs. Bassereau/Aye, C. - Match Highlights, 09/21/2025

In an all-Dutch bronze medal match, Boermans & De Groot produced a 2-0 (21-16, 21-13) shutout of eighth-seeded Steven van de Velde & Alexander Brouwer. Van de Velde & Brouwer took the first point of the game, but that was the first and the last time they were in the lead. Boermans & De Groot were well in control through the rest of the match to celebrate an emphatic win and a spot on the podium. Boermans contributed a match-high 17 points toward the victory. His tally included five kill blocks and two aces. De Groot added another 15 points, including an ace. Van de Velde put away two kill blocks and an ace to lead his team with 12 points. Brouwer added 11, all in swings.

Boermans/de Groot vs. van de Velde/Brouwer - Match Highlights, 09/21/2025

In the first semifinal earlier on Sunday, Bassereau & Aye came back from a set down to beat Van de Velde & Brouwer by 2-1 (16-21, 21-18, 15-13) in a very even match, with Bassereau putting up six kill blocks towards a team-high 20 points, while Van de Velde also raised six kill blocks and fired two aces towards a match-high 21 points.

Evandro & Arthur Lanci were more dominant in their semifinal against Boermans & De Groot and produced a 2-0 (21-12, 21-19) shutout. Evandro led the way with six kill blocks and an ace towards a 25-point tally to emerge as the best scorer of the match.