 "Beach Volleyball World Championships Adelaide 2025")
The Adelaide 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are just hours away from their much anticipated start. With the world’s best teams gathered in Australia, action will serve off in the morning of Friday, November 14, and continue until Sunday, November 23, when the champions of the 15th edition of the sport’s premier competition will triumph with their trophies. The ladies will take over the center court in Adelaide for the first three matches of the World Championships and the fans will not have to wait long before getting the opportunity to cheer on the likes of reigning Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (Duda) and the current number one team in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking, Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes, both representing Brazil.
Adelaide 2025 center court action starts with three women’s matches
USA against New Zealand in World Championship opener, followed by the first games of Brazilian heavyweights
Published 02:27, 13 Nov 2025
Brazil’s Victoria Lopes in action
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The largest beach volleyball competition ever to be held on Asian Volleyball Confederation territory and also the second ever World Championships to take place in the southern hemisphere will be played under the familiar format, with 48 teams per gender and with all five continental confederations represented. The 48 women’s teams representing 28 different countries were drawn into 12 single round-robin pools of four. The pool winners, the pool runners-up and the best four of the third-placed teams in the pools will progress straight to the sixteenthfinals. The remaining eight third-placed teams in the pools will advance to the first knockout round, dubbed “the lucky loser round”. The four winning teams of that round will also qualify for to the sixteenthfinals. The knockout stage continues in a direct elimination format, further including the eighthfinals, the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the two medal matches. A total of 108 matches per gender will be contested during the Adelaide 2025 World Championships.
Nine of the 12 women’s pools will hold their first leg of matches on Friday. The remaining three will get underway on Saturday.
In the women’s World Championship opening game, USA’s Julia Donlin & Lexy Denaburg and New Zealand’s Shaunna Polley & Olivia MacDonald will hit the center court at 09:00 local time (22:30 UTC on Thursday) for their Pool I fixture.
An hour later, sixth-seeded Ana Patricia & Duda – reigning Paris 2024 Olympic champions, Rome 2022 world champions, Tlaxcala 2023 World Championship runners-up and former leaders of the World Ranking – will grace the center court for their first Pool F match against Australia’s Tara Phillips & Kayla Mears.
The Brazilian fans in Adelaide will not have to go anywhere after Ana Patricia & Duda’s game, if they want to cheer on another high-profile pair of fellow Brazilians – top-seeded Thamela & Victoria, who have been the world’s number one team for as many as 25 weeks now. Thamela & Victoria will appear on center court to get Pool A action underway with a match against Peru’s Gaona Arevalo & Allcca Merino, seeded 48th in the 48-team draw, at 11:00 (00:30).
This is when the other two courts will gradually start opening for women’s matches as well. Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalist Anouk Verge-Depre and her younger sister Zoe Verge-Depre of Switzerland will take to court 3 for their Pool K opener against Dominican Republic’s Crismil Paniagua & Julibeth Payano.
USA’s Kelly Cheng, who will try to defend the 2023 World Championship crown she earned alongside Sara Hughes with her current partner Molly Shaw, will get her Adelaide 2025 campaign going with a Pool G game against Australia’s Jasmine Fleming & Stefanie Fejes on center court at 14:00 (03:30).
The current number two in the world and second seed in Adelaide, Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti of Brazil, will have Egypt’s Marwa Abdelhady & Nada Hamdy as their first opponents in Pool B on center court at 17:00 (06:30).
An hour later, at 18:00 (07:30), third-seeded Americans Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher, bronze medalists of the previous World Championship in Mexico, will hit the sand on court 3 for their opening Pool C match against Czechia’s Kylie Neuschaeferova & Martina Maixnerova.
The center court crowd is certain to erupt at 20:00 (09:30) when Australia’s favorite – Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist and Hamburg 2019 World Championship bronze medalist Taliqua Clancy – appears in the sand alongside current partner Jana Milutinovic to get their home campaign started with a Pool L duel against China’s Yan Xu & Xia Xinyi.
Half an hour later on court 3, the world’s number three team – fourth-seeded Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft of the United States – will face their first challenge in Pool D, Mozambique’s Vanessa Muianga & Mercia Mucheza.
Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann will not get into action before Saturday. On the second competition day in Adelaide, at 13:00 (02:30), the bronze medalists of the Rome 2022 World Championship will lock horns with Argentina’s Brenda Churin & Morena Abdala in a Pool H fixture.
Pool J will be the last one to get underway in the women’s tournament. It will open at 15:00 (04:30) on Saturday with a match between Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson and Morocco’s Mahassine Siad & Dina Mellal. Both Canadians have already been on World Championship podiums with different partners. Melissa triumphed as a world champion at Hamburg 2019. Brandie celebrated silver at Rome 2022.
