With no major beach volleyball event taking place last week, this week’s update of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking was mostly affected by the expiration of points earned at last year’s Hamburg Elite16 on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. The impact was greater on the women’s chart, where three teams, formed at the beginning of the new Olympic cycle - Brazil’s Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti, Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre and Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth – reached new highs in the top 10, and now two Brazilian pairs occupy the top two spots in the World Ranking.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

Carol & Rebecca are now the world’s new number two team. They surpassed Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, who finished runners-up in Hamburg last year and now suffered a net loss of 1,060 of the points collected there to drop from number two all the way to number eight in the World Ranking. Meanwhile, Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes, bronze medalists at Hamburg 2024, are only 400 points down as they had solid back-up results to step into their top eight scores of the last 365 days.

This way, Thamela & Victoria kept their leading position in the World Ranking with a total of 7,480 points, while their Brazilian compatriots Carol & Rebecca come second, 1,500 points below them, with a total of 5,980.

Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger, Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre, Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova, USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft and Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth also took advantage of Muller & Tillmann’s fall to step up by a spot each and line up from third to seventh, in that order.

For Anouk & Zoe and for Gottardi & Orsi Toth, the respective fourth and seventh places in the chart are the highest positions these duos have ever reached as such.

Ninth-ranked Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of USA and 10^th-ranked Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko of Ukraine complete the top 10.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

Hamburg 2024 bronze medalists Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands were the most affected team on the men’s side. The net loss of 916 points cost them their spot among the top 10 and they dropped from number seven to number 13. Their place was taken by Poland’s Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak, who actually gained some fresh points last week from triumphing as national champions at home, enough to climb from number 13 to a joint number nine with Norway’s Mathias Berntsen & Hendrik Mol.

Another Norwegian duo, the world’s number one team Anders Mol & Christian Sorum, had a good back-up for some of the expired points from their Hamburg 2024 gold and net-lost “only” 440 points to drop to a new total of 8,160 points, practically a “mosquito bite” for them, given that they are still 1,000 points clear on top of the chart, above reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden.

While Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso and Sweden’s Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson kept their respective positions three and four, last week’s number five, reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia, suffered a drop, but not because of the expiration of Hamburg Elite16 points. A year ago, instead of playing in Germany, they honored the Brno Futures at home in Czechia, won it, and now lost the 400 points that came with it to fall two spots to number seven.

This week’s top 10 is completed by Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan in number five, Brazil’s Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci in number six and Latvia’s Martins Plavins & Kristians Fokerots in number eight.

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