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**truebluefan** · 05-01-2008, 06:03 PM

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**truebluefan** · 05-11-2008, 06:30 AM

Prague, Czech Republic, May 8, 2008 - For a first-time SWATCH FIVB World Tour stop, the Prague 2008 Open has all the makings of a top-notch international Beach Volleyball event.

Situated on a picturesque island on the River Vltava at the Stvanice Stadium, Ceska Sportovni and promoter Vladimir Safarik transformed a tennis facility to a Beach Volleyball venue with four competition courts and a warm up area in less than 36 hours to launch the inaugural SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in the Czech Republic capital for the start of Country Quota matches here Tuesday.

"It is amazing what Vladimir and his staff did in less than two days to get this event up-and-running," said FIVB Technical Supervisor Holger Brusch of Germany. "After the completion of the tennis tournament here Sunday evening, more than 50 people were on-hand to build five courts and transform the facility into a Beach Volleyball complex. They had everything in place by the start of the Country Quota matches Tuesday afternoon."

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**truebluefan** · 05-11-2008, 06:31 AM

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, May 9, 2008 - The first SWATCH FIVB World Tour stop in Europe this season is producing interesting results with reigning Olympic champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos the only surviving Brazilian team for this week’s US$175,000 Prague 2008 Open after out-lasting a Beach Volleyball tandem from the Netherlands here Friday to reach the winner’s bracket quarter-finals.

With three of the top-ranked teams from Beach Volleyball power Brazil being eliminated earlier Friday by losing three of four matches in the contender’s bracket, the second-seeded Emanuel and Ricardo scored a 11-21, 21-17 and 15-10 victory in 49 minutes over seventh-seeded Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil of the Netherlands.

Joining Emanuel and Ricardo in the Prague 2008 Open winner’s bracket quarter-finals with a fifth-placed guaranteed in the third of 20 men’s stops on the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour, are 11th-seeded Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann of Germany, 13th-seeded Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal of the United States and 16th-seeded Bram Ronnes/Emiel Boersma of the Netherlands.

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**truebluefan** · 05-11-2008, 06:32 AM

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, May 9, 2008 - After failing to reach a SWATCH FIVB World Tour semi-final in their previous six starts, Germany’s Julius Brink and Christoph Dieckmann regained their “final four” form here Friday with a pair of wins in the US$175,000 Beach Volleyball event on Štvanice island.

Joining the 11th-seeded Germans in reaching Saturday’s semi-final in the third of 20 men’s stops on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour calendar were 13th-seeded Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal of the United States as Friday’s most successful teams defeated tandems from Brazil and the Netherlands, respectively.

Two rounds of four elimination matches will be played Saturday to determine the last two teams in the inaugural Prague 2008 Open semi-final that will set the lineup for Sunday afternoon’s medal matches where the final two Beach Volleyball tandems will compete for the $28,000 first-place prize while enhancing their qualifying bid for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

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**truebluefan** · 05-11-2008, 06:33 AM

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, May 10, 2008 - For the first-time this year and the 39th-time on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour since the start of international Beach Volleyball circuit in 1987, four different countries will be represented in the semi-finals after pairs from Brazil and the Netherlands qualified here Saturday.

Being played on a picturesque island on the River Vltava at the Stvanice Stadium, the US$175,000 Prague 2008 Open will also have teams from Germany and the United States competing in Saturday afternoon’s semi-final matches that will determine the lineup for Sunday’s medal matches at the transformed tennis facility.

Saturday’s first semi-final will feature the two winningest countries in terms of medals on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour as 13th-seeded Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal of the United States (92 men’s medals) challenge second-seeded Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos of Brazil (337 medals). It is the fourth FIVB meeting between the two teams with the Americans holding a 3-1 edge, but Emanuel and Ricardo won the last match last August in Austria.

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**truebluefan** · 05-11-2008, 06:35 AM

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, May 10, 2008 - Beach Volleyball teams from Germany and the United States will compete here Sunday for the inaugural Prague 2008 Open gold medal after upsetting higher-seeded men’s teams from Brazil and the Netherlands in Saturday’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour semi-finals.

With 11th-seeded Julius Brink and Christoph Dieckmann of Germany meeting 13th-seeded Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal of the United States for the US$28,000 first-place prize on the picturesque River Vltava island at the Stvanice Stadium, it will mark the fifth-time since 1995 that two teams seeded lower than 10th will compete for a FIVB Beach Volleyball title.

The last time two teams seeded lower than 10th were in a SWATCH FIVB World Tour gold medal match was in July 2007 in Norway, when 13th-seeded Marcio Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes of Brazil defeated 14th-seeded Reinder Nummerdor and Richardo Schuil of the Netherlands 21-14 and 27-25. Before the Stavanger occurance, three meetings of teams seeded lower than 10th happen in 1995.

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**truebluefan** · 05-12-2008, 10:21 AM

Bountiful's Jake Gibb and his partner Sean Rosenthal won all six of the Swatch FIVB World Tour beach volleyball matches and took the gold medal Sunday in the first Prague 2008 Open. For the gold medal, the 13th-seeded Americans defeated the 11th-seeded German team of Julius Brink and Christoph Dieckmann 21-13 and 23-21 in 47 minutes. The tournament completed the Gibb-Rosenthal partnership's requirement of playing in eight Swatch FIVB World Tour tournaments that will allow them to be considered for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It was their second international title together. They shared the $28,000 first-place prize

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**truebluefan** · 05-12-2008, 10:22 AM

The 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour will be staged on two continents this week with the women resuming competition in Asia while the men continue their travels in Europe as qualifying for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games continues for the planet's top Beach Volleyball players.

With the women idle this past week, the men's SWATCH FIVB World Tour competed for the first-time in the Czech Republic where Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal of the United States snapped Brazil's streak of eight-straight gold medals on the international circuit by winning the Prague title with a 21-13 and 23-21 win in 47 minutes over Julius Brink and Christoph Dieckmann of Germany.

Prior to the start of the men's event in Roseto degli Abruzzi, for the third annual Italian Open presented by Abruzzo, the women's second annual Seoul Open begins on the Korean peninsula. Both SWATCH FIVB World Tour stops will feature US$175,000 in prize money along with possible qualifying points for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

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