Doczi & Veress played their first Beach Pro Tour event as a duo. It was also the first ever Tour podium for 19-year-old Veress, while 22-year-old Doczi already had a gold medal result at the 2024 Qingdao Futures. The third-seeded Hungarians went through the Rarotonga Futures on a 5-1 win-loss record. In Friday’s semifinals, they put together a 2-0 (21-18, 21-16) victory over eighth-seeded Australian qualifiers Finley Bennett & James Kay and went on to triumph as trophy holders after an emphatic 2-0 (21-6, 21-15) shutout of fifth-seeded Americans Siragusa & Ukkelberg.
27-year-old Siragusa and 31-year-old Ukkelberg also participated on the Beach Pro Tour together for the first time and picked up the team’s first medal, first for Ukkelberg individually as well. It was the second podium for Siragusa, who claimed bronze at the 2023 Coolangatta Futures. They secured at least a silver finish in Rarotonga with a hard-fought 2-1 (15-21, 21-14, 16-14) comeback in their semifinal against Abrams & Chadwick.
The second-seeded Canadians bounced back with a 2-0 (26-24, 21-14) win over Bennett & Kay in the third-place playoff and also decorated their pair’s Beach Pro Tour appearance as such with a podium finish. While 25-year-old Abrams had already earned a silver medal at the 2024 Halifax Futures, the Rarotonga bronze was the first Tour medal for 24-year-old Chadwick.
