Thursday’s qualifiers and Friday’s pool stage at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures event in Satun are over and the knockout bracket for Saturday’s eighthfinals and quarterfinals is now set to determine the last four per gender, who will engage in the last battles for the podium on Sunday, when all the semifinal and medal match action will be streamed live on the Beach Volleyball World YouTube channel.
12 teams per gender have survived this far in the tournament. Eight of them, the pool runners-up and the third-placed teams, will participate in the first knockout round on Saturday morning. The four pool toppers are awaiting the winners for the quarterfinal matches on Saturday afternoon to set up the semifinal match-ups for Sunday’s climax.