Andressa & Taina even stand second in the Nuvali pre-seeding on entry points. It will be their third Beach Pro Tour event together. They made their debut at the Joao Pessoa Elite16 back at home in Brazil and reached the quarterfinals. Then, they appeared at the Rio Elite16 and made the eighthfinals.
Ittlinger & Van de Velde were one of the teams that beat them in Rio and went on to advance all the way to the semifinals. After skipping Haikou and Chennai, the German pair is set to compete again in Nuvali. For their fifth Beach Pro Tour event together, they are pre-seeded sixth in the main draw on entry points. Before the fourth place in Rio, they finished fifth in Joao Pessoa and fourth at the Brussels Futures in August. At their rookie appearance as a team in the Vienna Elite16 qualifiers in July, they were stopped by Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte.
The Lithuanian Paris 2024 Olympians lead the pre-seeding for Nuvali, just as they did for Chennai last week. They made it to the semifinals in India and will now try to improve from the fourth place they took there.
All three podium teams from Chennai will be back for more in Nuvali. Winners Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko of Ukraine showed a good shape and picked up their first-ever Challenge-level medal. Silver medallists Hailey Harward & Kylie Kuyava-De Berg of the United States, on the other hand, picked up their first Beach Pro Tour medal of any category as a team.
And while these two teams are also set to start in Nuvali directly from the main draw, at this point bronze medallists Molly Shaw & Toni Rodriguez, also of USA, are still pre-seeded to start from the qualifications for the third consecutive time. They did so in their first two Beach Pro Tour appearances as a duo and snatched silver in Haikou and bronze in Chennai.
French Paris 2023 Olympians Lezana Placette & Alexia Richard, on the other hand, also started from the qualifications in Haikou and Chennai and went on to pick up a bronze and a seventh place, respectively, but this time will get to begin from the main draw.
Nuvali Challenge action will get underway with the women’s qualifiers on Thursday morning at 08:00 local time (00:00 UTC).
