The home teams clearly dominated the Brno Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Czech pairs picked up as many as five of the six medals, leaving only one of the bronzes to a foreign duo. Kylie Neuschaeferova & Martina Maixnerova, Marketa Svozilova & Marie-Sara Stochlova and Andrea Lorenzova & Mariana Tomasova delighted the home fans by collecting the gold, the silver and the bronze, respectively, in the women’s tournament. Ondrej Perusic & Jakub Sepka defeated Matyas Dzavoronok & Jiri Sedlak in an all-Czech men’s final, while Latvia’s Olivers Bulgacs & Marcis Berzins finished third.
Kylie Neuschaeferova & Martina Maixnerova won the first three of their matches in Brno in straight sets, but when it came to the distribution of the medals, they had to resort to tie-breaker resolutions to stay unbeaten and claim the gold, their second on the Beach Pro Tour, after the Messina Futures last year. They also have one bronze on their team’s record. In the semifinals in Czechia’s second biggest city, second-seeded Neuschaeferova & Maixnerova achieved a hard-fought 2-1 (29-31, 21-13, 15-13) win over fourth-seeded compatriots Andrea Lorenzova & Mariana Tomasova, and in the gold medal showdown, they battled it out for a 2-1 (24-22, 22-24, 15-11) upset of the top-seeded pairing of Paris 2024 Olympian Marie-Sara Stochlova with Marketa Svozilova.
Svozilova & Stochlova did not lose a single set on the way to the final. They crowned their winning streak with a tight 2-0 (22-20, 23-21) semifinal victory over third-seeded Austrians Oleksandra Shkarupa & Magdalena Rabitsch, securing their second consecutive podium, following the gold they claimed at the Shangluo Challenge last month. Before that, the duo had one silver at the Futures level.
Previously competing on the same side of the net, Neuschaeferova & Svozilova won the Brno Futures together back in 2024.
In the bronze medal match, Lorenzova & Tomasova outlasted Shkarupa & Rabitsch to celebrate a 2-1 (21-18, 18-21, 15-11) win and their fourth Beach Pro Tour podium as a pair, after collecting one gold and two silvers earlier this season.
