Futures - Haikou, CHN - 2026

Chinese teams reign supreme at Haikou Futures

Duos from Turkiye, Germany and Japan also bring home medals

Published 08:12, 16 Mar 2026

The 2026 Haikou Futures men’s final

Representatives of the host nation China collected two golds and a silver at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Haikou Futures that came to an end on Sunday. In an all-Chinese women’s final, Jiang Kaiyue & Dong Jie defeated Kadeliye Halaiti & Zhou Mingli, while Japan’s Miki Ishii & Mayu Kikuchi took the bronze. Wu Jiaxin & Wang Yanwei topped the men’s podium, while the silver and the bronze went to Turkiye’s Yusuf Ozdemir & Batuhan Kuru and Germany’s Niklas Held & Luis Kubo, respectively.

The 2026 Haikou Futures women’s final

At their second Beach Pro Tour appearance as a pair, top-seeded home favorites Jiang Kaiyue & Dong Jie made an emphatic quest to the Haikou Futures women’s gold, with five wins in five matches. The only set they dropped along the way was in the all-Chinese final against second-seeded Kadeliye Halaiti & Zhou Mingli, for whom it was the second tournament together as well. Jiang & Dong celebrated a 2-1 (15-21, 21-18, 15-13) victory and their first gold, leaving Kadeliye & Zhou with their first silver.

While Jiang & Dong crowned their impeccable run towards the final with a 2-0 (21-19, 21-19) semifinal win over another Chinese duo, 12^th-seeded wild cards Yu Tong & Qi Siyu, it was in the other semifinal, where Kadeliye & Zhou lost their first set of the tournament, but still extended their winning streak with a 2-1 (21-15, 17-21, 15-13) victory over fourth-seeded Miki Ishii & Mayu Kikuchi of Japan.

Ishii & Kikuchi, who decorated their team’s Tour debut with a Sanya Futures gold last week, now added a bronze to their growing collection, making it two podiums in two appearances so far. In the third-place playoff, they battled it out for a tight 2-0 (22-20, 21-19) win over Yu & Qi.

The 2026 Haikou Futures medalists

Fourth-seeded Wu Jiaxin & Wang Yanwei also dropped only a set in the five matches played on the way to the men’s title in Haikou. In the final showdown, they squeezed out a nail-biting 2-0 (25-23, 22-20) upset of bracket leaders Yusuf Ozdemir & Batuhan Kuru of Turkiye to pick up gold, the duo’s first Beach Pro Tour medal. Before that, in the semis, the Chinese team delivered a 2-0 (21-15, 21-13) shutout of seventh-seeded Jonathan Bungert & Filo Wust of Germany.

Ozdemir & Kuru, on the other hand, outlasted another German pair, sixth-seeded qualifiers Niklas Held & Luis Kubo, in a 2-1 (17-21, 21-17, 15-11) semifinal comeback to secure the team’s second Beach Pro Tour medal, after the home gold at the Balikesir Futures last year.

Held & Kubo, who made it from Thursday’s qualifiers to Sunday’s last competition day on a run of five wins in a row, recovered from their semifinal setback with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) sweep of the all-German third-place match against Bungert & Wust to earn bronze, also their second medal in two Beach Pro Tour appearances, after last week’s Sanya Futures gold.