A stellar clash between the new teams of Italian Olympians Enrico Rossi and Alex Ranghieri decided the men’s gold medal at the Battipaglia Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Enrico Rosi & Marco Viscovich celebrated on top of the podium, leaving Alex Ranghieri & Manuel Alfieri with silver. The bronze went to Austrian Olympians Alexander Huber & Robin Seidl. 19-year-old Dutch qualifiers Trijntje Veerbeek & Floor Hogenhout, Lithuania’s Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite and France’s Anouk Dupin & Marine Kinna, in that order, lined up with the women’s gold, silver and bronze in Italy.

Top-seeded Enrico Rosi & Marco Viscovich cruised through the tournament undefeated in five matches played and collected their first Beach Pro Tour medal as a pair. In the semifinals, they suffered one of their two set losses in the competition, but managed to come back and claim a 2-1 (17-21, 21-13, 15-8) victory over sixth-seeded Austrians Alexander Huber & Robin Seidl. Against their second-seeded compatriots Alex Ranghieri & Manuel Alfieri in the gold medal showdown, Rosi & Viscovich mastered an emphatic 2-0 (21-14, 21-16) sweep.

Two-time Olympian Ranghieri and his partner Alfieri also picked up their first Beach Pro Tour medal as a duo. To reach the final, they won four games in a row. In the semifinals, Ranghieri & Alfieri managed a 2-0 (21-18, 21-19) win over another Italian team, third-seeded Tiziano Andreatta & Davide Benzi.

Huber & Seidl stood on the way to a full Italian sweep of the podium spots and snatched the bronze after a hard-fought 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 17-15) victory over Andreatta & Benzi. It was their second Beach Pro Tour medal since they reunited this season, after the silver they earned at their debut at April’s Songkhla Futures.

A pair of 19-year-old Dutch athletes, Trijntje Veerbeek & Floor Hogenhout, made a sensational run from the qualifications all the way to the top of the women’s podium, stringing up an unbeaten streak of six victories. Joining the main draw as the seventh seed, they marched on to the gold medal, crowning their journey with a tight 2-1 (21-13, 18-21, 18-16) semifinal win over third-seeded Anouk Dupin & Marine Kinna of France and a 2-0 (22-20, 21-15) upset of second-seeded Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite of Lithuania in the final. It was Veerbeek & Hogenhout’s only third appearance on the Beach Pro Tour and, after reaching the quarterfinals in Cervia and Madrid, they celebrated their first podium with gold.

Dumbauskaite & Grudzinskaite had never medaled in their FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour endeavors, and had only collected one Beach Pro Tour bronze during their first period together in 2021 and 2022. Since their reunion this season, they have already made the podiums at both of their appearances on the Tour so far. In the Battipaglia semifinals, the Lithuanians produced a 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) shutout of fourth-seeded Lisa Luini & Desy Poiesz of the Netherlands to secure their third Futures medal, after the bronzes at Ios 2022 and at Nuvali 2025.

In the third-place game, Dupin & Kinna bounced back to beat Luini & Poiesz by 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) and claim bronze. For Dupin, it was the third medal in three Beach Pro Tour appearances in 2025 with three different partners. She also took Valencia Futures gold with Saofe Duval and Madrid Futures silver with Alex Merle. It was the first ever Beach Pro Tour podium for Kinna.

25 men’s teams and 25 women’s teams representing 19 different countries took part in the Battipaglia Futures. As many as three Futures events will take place this week, from June 5 to 8 – in Sveti Vlas, Bulgaria, in Prague, Czechia and a men’s tournament in Krakow, Poland.

Battipaglia Futures: results and standings

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