Janne Uhl & Paula Schurholz celebrated their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold, both as a team and individually. The German pair topped the final standings at the Madrid Futures in Spain, accompanied by silver medalists Alex Merle & Anouk Dupin of France and bronze medalists Tjasa Kotnik & Maja Marolt of Slovenia on the podium.
19-year-old Uhl and 23-year-old Schurholz lost only one in six matches played in Madrid, the Pool A final against top-seeded Spanish Olympians Daniela Alvarez & Tania Moreno. In the semifinals, the ninth-seeded Germans produced a 2-1 (21-12, 11-21, 15-12) victory over seventh-seeded Kotnik & Marolt, and in the final, they followed up with another three-set win, a dramatic 2-1 (21-13, 18-21, 20-18) in the overtime of the tie-breaker against sixth-seeded Merle & Dupin. Previously, Uhl & Schurholz had one silver and one bronze on the Beach Pro Tour.
