News Beach volleyball 07/10/2014 2014 FIVB World Tour leaders Juliana/Antonelli prepare to take on Xiamen Xiamen,China, October 7, 2014 – USA’s Tealle Hunkus and Kendra Vanzwieten earn a byedirectly into Thursday’s main draw as top seeded qualifiers at the 2014 FIVBBeach Volleyball World Tour Xiamen Open. The FIVB World Tour visits Xiamen forthe second consecutive year and the $150,000 Xiamen Open is the third FIVBevent in China this year. Hunkus/Vanzwietenplay in their first major tournament together and a spot in the main draw maypit them against the likes of favourites Juliana Felisberta Silva and MariaAntonelli from Brazil. Juliana/Antonelli top the 2014 FIVB World SeasonRankings and have seen incredible form this year with 64 match wins, the moston the FIVB World Tour in 2014. Hunkus/Vanzwietenproceed directly into the main draw along with Katarzyna Kociolek and JagodaCruszczynska (POL), Dorota Strag and Karolina Baran (POL), Ester Ribera Boterand Amaranta Fernandez Navarro (ESP) and Jenny Heinemann and Anika Krebs (GER).Sixteams will battle for the three remaining main draw spots on Wednesday beginningwith Keiko Urata and Yui Nagata of Japan up against Australia’s Jordan Mowenand Justine Mowen.Xiamen 2014 menAll eightlucky men’s qualifiers proceed directly into Wednesday’s main draw: Likejiang HA and JianBao (CHN), Iver Andreas Horrem and Geir Eithun (NOR), Sean Faiga and ArielHilman (ISR), Yannick Salvetti and Jean Baptiste Daguerre (FRA), SimonFecteau-Boutin and Alex Corsi Caya (CAN), Yasuo Nakaya and Daitsuke Matsumoto(JPN), Hitoshi Murakami and Takumi Takahashi (JPN) and Keisuke Shimizu andJunki Hatabe (JPN).Turkey’sVolkan Gögtepe and Murat Giginoglu enter the main draw with most points coming offthe back of their best result to date with a fifth place finish at the FIVB SãoPaulo Grand Slam just two weeks ago. Men’s main draw pool matches begin onWednesday.With the Grand Slam portion of the 2014 FIVB World Tournow complete, the tour continues after Xiamen with four double-gender FIVB Openevents along with one men-only FIVB Open tournament. The tour will travel to Argentina for the FIVBParana Open (Oct. 28-Nov. 2) before heading to Doha for the men-only FIVB QatarOpen (Nov. 4-8). India will then host the double-gender FIVB Vizag Open (Nov.25-30), before the 2014 calendar comes to a close in South Africa with thedouble-gender FIVB Mangaung Open (Dec. 9-14). Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News