A one-off Austrian partnership between experienced 31-year-old Christoph Dressler and 19-year-old hopeful Tim Berger produced the best possible result as the newly formed pair cruised through the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Brussels Futures victoriously to pick up the men’s gold. Israel’s Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov and Poland’s Piotr Janiak & Jedrzej Brozyniak completed the podium. Finnish standouts Niina Ahtiainen & Taru Lahti-Liukkonen were impeccable on the way to the women’s title in Belgium. The silver went to Germany’s Janne Uhl & Paula Schurholz while home favourites Sarah Cools & Lisa Van Den Vonder settled for bronze.
Dressler & Berger achieved five wins in five matches played at the tournament to celebrate Dressler’s second Beach Pro Tour gold, after his Sveti Vlas Futures trophy earlier this year, and Berger’s second gold, after his 2023 Mallorca Futures victory, and fourth overall podium. In the semifinals, they earned a hard-fought 2-1 (21-13, 19-21, 15-10) win over fellow Austrians Paul Pascariuc & Laurenz Leitner, who emerged from the tournament’s qualifiers. In the final, the second-seeded Austrian pair mounted a 2-1 (18-21, 21-19, 15-12) comeback from a set down against Elazar & Cuzmiciov.
