China, Germany, Japan and Turkiye to be represented in Haikou Futures semis

As many as four teams from host nation China advanced to the semifinals of the Haikou Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour and will be joined by two German pairs and duos from Japan and Turkiye in Sunday’s matches for the distribution of the places on the podiums. The semis and the medal matches on March 15 will be streamed live on the Beach Volleyball World YouTube channel.

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An all-Asian line-up shaped up in the women’s tournament. Sunday’s action will serve off at 08:00 local time (00:00 UTC) with a semifinal duel between Chinese compatriots – top-seeded Jiang Kaiyue & Dong Jie and 12^th-seeded wild cards Yu Tong & Qi Siyu. The bracket leaders arrived at the last four without dropping a single set in the tournament so far. They made their Beach Pro Tour debut as a team last week at the Bhubaneswar Challenge, and now they have made it to their first semifinal on the Tour. It is the second Tour appearance for the pairing of Yu & Qi as well, and it is also their second final four in a row, after their silver finish at the Sanya Futures last week. Qi is only 16 years old.

Another Chinese duo will compete in the second semifinal at 08:50 (00:50). Second-seeded Kadeliye Halaiti & Zhou Mingli will take on Japan’s Miki Ishii & Mayu Kikuchi, seeded fourth. Both of these teams have cruised to the semifinals without losing any sets along the way as well. Kadeliye & Zhou also made their Tour debut together in Bhubaneswar, and now they are on to their first semifinal, while Ishii & Kikuchi already struck gold at their duo’s Tour debut in Sanya.

The men’s semifinals will follow, starting with an encounter between fourth-seeded Wu Jiaxin & Wang Yanwei of China and seventh-seeded Jonathan Bungert & Filo Wust of Germany at 09:40 (01:40). The European pair is yet to lose a set in Haikou. For the 17-year-old Germans, who claimed gold at the 2025 FIVB U18 World Championship and gold at the 2025 CEV U18 European Championship, as well as for Wu & Wang as a pair, it will be the first semifinal on the Beach Pro Tour.

The last semifinal will serve off at 10:30 (02:30). Another German duo, sixth-seeded Niklas Held & Luis Kubo, will challenge bracket leaders Yusuf Ozdemir & Batuhan Kuru of Turkiye. Held & Kubo made it from Thursday’s qualifiers to Sunday’s semifinals on a run of five wins in a row, dropping only a set along the way. At their first Tour appearance together, they triumphed as Sanya Futures gold medalists. Ozdemir & Kuru are also on to their second final four appearance, after topping the podium last season at home in Balikesir.

Later on Sunday, the women’s bronze medal playoff will get underway at 13:00 (05:00). One hour later, it will be the men’s turn to determine the Haikou Futures bronze medalists. The women’s gold medal match will then start at 15:00 (07:00), followed by the men’s final showdown at 16:00 (08:00).

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