Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes are the new number one team in the women’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking. The Brazilian duo climbed on top of the chart for the first time, taking over from Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, who dropped to number three after 11 weeks as the world’s number one. Meanwhile, Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso rose to number two in the men’s World Ranking for the first time in the team’s history.

With the expiration of last year’s Espinho Elite16 points, this week’s update of the World Rankings caused serious reshuffles ahead of the upcoming Ostrava Elite, set to bring in a big fresh load of new ranking points to be distributed among the world’s leading duos.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

Thamela & Victoria did not take part in the 2024 Elite16 event in Portugal, so their ranking score of 6,820 points from last week stayed untouched with the new chart update. Muller & Tillmann, however, dropped the 760 points that came with their quarterfinal finish in Espinho, while adding only 40 new points from winning a German national tour event some ten days ago. With a new total of 6,120, the German duo not only allowed last week’s number two Thamela & Victoria to climb to number one, but also last week’s number three, USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft, to surge to number two. Despite losing their 400 points from Espinho, the Americans kept a score of 6,160 points, 40 above Muller & Tillmann. They also have a tournament in hand as they have only seven on their record from the last 365 days.

Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger also reached a new high for the team and ascended to number four for the first time. The loss of Espinho points did not affect their overall score of 5,440, but they jumped two spots up, overtaking Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova, now fifth on 5,360 points, and Espinho gold medalists Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of USA, now seventh on 4,500 (from only four qualifying tournaments played). Nuss & Brasher have also been surpassed by Lithuania’s Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte, who made a leap of three positions to a new team high, sixth place.

The next three positions in the women’s World Ranking were taken by Brazil’s Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti, Finland’s Taru Lahti-Liukkonen & Niina Ahtiainen and USA’s Teegan Van Gunst & Kimberly Hildreth, for all of whom it is the first time in the top 10 as pairs.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

While men’s ranking leaders Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway were unaffected in first place on an impressive 8,600 points, as they did not compete in Espinho, last week’s number two, reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, lost the 1,200 points they had for their gold in Portugal and plummeted to a new score of 6,020, which puts them in fourth place (with six qualifying tournaments on record).

Capogrosso & Capogrosso took advantage of the situation and continued their rise in the chart, now reaching number two for the first time. The expiration of Espinho points did not affect the Argentineans as that was not among their top eight results of the past one year. They stayed on 6,820 points, now 800 above the Swedish jump-setters. The latter were also surpassed by Netherlands’ Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot, who are now third on 6,280, despite a net loss of 420 points.

Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler also suffered a heavy blow, as they also had silver from Espinho, and dropped out of the top 10, sliding down from number six to number 13. In their absence, the places from fifth to 10^th are now occupied by Brazil’s Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci, Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan, Norway’s Mathias Berntsen & Hendrik Mol, Chile’s Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt, Latvia’s Martins Plavins & Kristians Fokerots (new team high) and England’s Joaquin Bello & Javier Bello (new team high), in that order.

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