Beach Pro Tour first-timers Alexis Durish & Audrey Koenig of the United States crowned their debut with a Geneva Futures gold. Lithuania’s Ieva Dumbauskaite & Gerda Grudzinskaite picked up the silver medals in Switzerland, while, France’s Elsa Descamps & Romane Sobezalz completed the podium with bronze.
The 21-year-old American rookies started the Geneva tournament from the qualifications and managed to string up seven consecutive victories all the way to the top of the podium, while dropping only two sets along the way. One of them was the overtime second set of the gold medal showdown. Durish & Koenig, seeded 14th in the 16-team main draw, triumphed after a 2-1 (21-16, 24-26, 15-5) upset of second-seeded Dumbauskaite & Grudzinskaite.
In their semifinal match, the US pair hammered out a 2-0 (21-15, 21-18) shutout of sixth-seeded Kaylee Glagau & Emma Glagau of Canada. The Lithuanian duo also swept their semifinal - 2-0 (21-19, 21-11) against fourth-seeded Descamps & Sobezalz – to secure a spot on the podium. For them, this was the second silver and overall fourth medal on the Beach Pro Tour. This season alone, Dumbauskaite & Grudzinskaite made a Beach Pro Tour podium for the third time, after the Nuvali Futures bronze and the Battipaglia Futures silver. They reached the Geneva final without losing any sets in the four matches played on the way.
Descamps & Sobezalz also finished the tournament on a 4-1 win-loss record, but after their semifinal loss to the Lithuanians, it was only good enough for the bronze. The French team bounced back with a 2-0 (21-12, 21-16) sweep of the third-place match against the Glagaus and earned their second Beach Pro Tour medal together, after the 2024 Castellon Futures silver.
