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August 23-26, 2007 |
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Coney Island, Brooklyn |
More than 150 of the top professional beach volleyball players traveled to Coney Island to compete in the AVP Brooklyn Open. Fans got a chance to see Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh take home their 11th win of the season by defeating Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh in the women’s final (21-18, 21-16). In the men’s final, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers endured a tough battle against Aaron Wachtfogel and Scott Wong, eventually picking up the win (23-21, 24-22) and their ninth title of the year.
Rogers battled through a back injury suffered while lifting a bag of balls a few days before the tournament, and he and Dalhausser won the title playing out of the contender’s bracket after losing their first Saturday match to John Hyden and Brad Keenan. May-Treanor and Walsh, who lost last week in Boston to Youngs and Branagh, have 16 total wins this season, including five on the FIVB circuit.
The enthusiasm of the Brooklyn fans did not go unnoticed by the players. "The fan support has been awesome," said Youngs after she and Branagh advanced to their third consecutive women's final. "They have a really great beach volleyball fan base here.” Wachtfogel enjoyed people-watching throughout his stay in the Big Apple and took the F train every morning to Coney Island from a loft in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. "I put my iTunes on and just cruised,” said the Redondo Beach, CA native. “It's entertaining — I sit there, put some music on, watch people walk to the beach. You get to see a bunch of different kinds of people."
The Tour’s next stop is in Cincinnati, before heading to Las Vegas for the Gods and Goddesses of the Beach competition at Caesars Palace.
AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Inc. is a leading lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on the production, marketing and distribution of professional beach volleyball events worldwide. AVP operates the industry's most prominent national touring series, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, which was organized in 1983. Featuring more than 150 of the top American men and women competitors in the sport, AVP staged 14 events throughout the United States in 2005. In 2004, AVP athletes successfully represented the United States during the Olympics in Athens, Greece, winning gold and bronze medals, the first medals won by U.S. women in professional beach volleyball.
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For information from the 2006 AVP Brooklyn Open, please visit our 2006 page.
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| Last Updated On:
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
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