19-year-old Arthur Canet and 20-year-old Teo Rotar swept all five of their matches at the Geneva Futures in Switzerland to claim the team’s second gold and third medal on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, after picking up silver and gold at the Montpelier Futures at home in France in 2022 and 2023. Two Swiss pairs, Quentin Metral & Jonathan Jordan and Yves Haussener & Julian Friedli, completed the podium.
Canet & Rotar, U19 world champions in 2021, showed a really good form in Geneva and shut out all five of their opponents on the way to the gold medal. In Sunday’s semifinals, the third-seeded French pair mastered an emphatic 2-0 (21-13, 21-13) win over seventh-seeded compatriots Elouan Chouikh-Barbez & Tom Altwies, before defeating fourth-seeded Metral & Jordan for the trophy in a 2-0 (21-17, 21-13) straight-set final.
