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Arthur Canet & Teo Rotar triumph as 2024 Geneva Futures winners (source: cev.eu)

Arthur Canet & Teo Rotar triumph as 2024 Geneva Futures winners (source: cev.eu)

19-year-old Arthur Canet and 20-year-old Teo Rotar swept all five of their matches at the Geneva Futures in Switzerland to claim the team’s second gold and third medal on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, after picking up silver and gold at the Montpelier Futures at home in France in 2022 and 2023. Two Swiss pairs, Quentin Metral & Jonathan Jordan and Yves Haussener & Julian Friedli, completed the podium.

Canet & Rotar, U19 world champions in 2021, showed a really good form in Geneva and shut out all five of their opponents on the way to the gold medal. In Sunday’s semifinals, the third-seeded French pair mastered an emphatic 2-0 (21-13, 21-13) win over seventh-seeded compatriots Elouan Chouikh-Barbez & Tom Altwies, before defeating fourth-seeded Metral & Jordan for the trophy in a 2-0 (21-17, 21-13) straight-set final.

Teo Rotar on the block against Jonathan Jordan during the Geneva Futures final (source: cev.eu)

Teo Rotar on the block against Jonathan Jordan during the Geneva Futures final (source: cev.eu)

For the recently formed Swiss duo, it was the second consecutive Beach Pro Tour silver. They reached the final of the Spiez Futures, also in Switzerland, earlier this month. Metral & Jordan cruised to the Geneva final on a run of four straight-set wins in a row, crowned by a 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) semifinal victory over second-seeded Haussener & Friedli, the same Swiss pair they lost to in the Spiez final.

Haussener and 17-year-old Friedli bounced back with a 2-0 (21-14, 21-15) sweep of the third place match against Chouikh & Altwies, beating the French opponents for the second time at this tournament, after a three-set victory in their pool’s winners’ match, and picked up the duo’s second medal on the Tour, this time bronze.

The 2024 Geneva Futures men’s podium (source: cev.eu)

The 2024 Geneva Futures men’s podium (source: cev.eu)

24 men’s teams from 17 different countries took part in the Geneva Futures. The next Futures event will take place in Baden, Austria from June 26 to 30.

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June 28, at 15:00 UTC