On how many occasions had Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova played Brazilians Eduarda 'Duda' Lisboa and Ana Patricia Ramos without a win? Four? Five? Six? Graudina didn’t know. And, at any rate, what did the record matter, anyway?

Just moments after securing an uninterrupted dismantling of Chile’s Marco and Esteban Grimalt in the semifinals of the Paris Elite16, Christian Sorum spoke what might just be the two most terrifying words in beach volleyball: “We’re back.”

Nearly two months later, Alex Brouwer still can’t forget about it.

Let’s rewind the tape, shall we? Run it back. Only this time, let’s take arguably the best rivalry on the AVP Tour – Kelly Cheng and Betsi Flint vs. Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth – and move it from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and drop it onto an

The most lopsided score of the Paris Elite16 thus far – Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli’s 21-6 second set victory over France’s Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard – is also something of a strange one, not only because of the vast difference in points scored, but because of how deceiving

Pool B in this weekend’s Paris Elite16 is both metaphorically and literally a family affair. Of the four teams in the pool, two – Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, and Hendrik Mol and Mathias Berntsen – include actual brothers, with the elder, Hendrik, battling with his World Championship-winning brother,