Carol & Rebecca earned 760 points towards their World Ranking score with the fifth place they took in Canada. It was only their eighth qualifying tournament over the past 365 days, so they netted the full amount to improve to a new total of 5,980 points, enough to surpass USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft and Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger on the way up from number five to number three in the chart. Their previous high was the fourth place they held for three weeks in July.
Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre lost to Carol & Rebeca in the Montreal eighthfinals, but also climbed to a team’s new high in the World Ranking. The Swiss sisters kept most of the 600 points that came with their ninth place in Canada and jumped from their previous high seventh place to fifth place in the chart on a total of 5,560 points. In the process, they also overtook Cannon & Kraft, who skipped Montreal and are now down to number seven, as well as Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova, who stayed put in sixth position despite reaching the semifinals last week.
Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes net-gained 160 points from their quarterfinal finish in Montreal to stay on top of the World Ranking on 7,880 points, 1,820 points clear of second-ranked Germans Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, who finished runners-up in Canada, but also had their points from last August’s CEV European Championship title expire, so their score improved by only 300 points.
The women’s top 10 is completed by eighth-ranked Italians Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth, ninth-ranked Americans Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher and 10th-ranked Ukrainians Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko.
Montreal winners Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson of Canada climbed from number 35 to number 18 on a total of 4,080 points from five qualifying tournaments. Reigning Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) of Brazil, who took bronze in Canada, leapt from number 57 to number 33 on a total of 3,360 points from four tournaments. Meanwhile, the winners of last week’s Busan Gwangalli Futures in Korea - Ren Matsumoto & Non Matsumoto of Japan – ascended from number 54 to number 45.
