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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$1,000,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships presented by A1
July 28 - August 5, 2017

(7) Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada

Melissa Humana-Paredes
Canada

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Oct 10, 1992 (33 yrs old)

Home Town:

Toronto, ON

Height:

175 cm (5'9")

Weight:

63 kg (139 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

105

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$576,075.00

Sarah Pavan
Canada

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Aug 16, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Kitchener, ON

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

72 kg (158 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

103

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$603,225.00

Awards

Top Rookie 2014
Most Improved Player 2017
Best Setter 2018, 2019
Best Defensive Player 2019
Team of the Year 2019 (with Sarah Pavan)
VolleyballMag.com BPT Sportsmanship 2023

Awards

Best Blocker 2015, 2017, 2019
Team of the Year 2019 (with Melissa Humana-Paredes)

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	CQ	Money
FIVB	45	7	7	2	7	10	1	7	0	3	0	1	US$686,000.00

Previous Vienna Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/19-23/2017	Olsztyn Four Star	3	2nd	640	US$16,000.00
FIVB	7/3-8/2017	Gstaad Major Five Star	5	3rd	720	US$20,000.00
FIVB	6/26-7/1/2017	Porec Major Five Star	6	1st	1200	US$40,000.00
FIVB	6/14-18/2017	The Hague Three Star	10	4th	300	US$4,000.00
FIVB	5/31-6/4/2017	Moscow Three Star	7	9th	180	US$2,000.00
FIVB	5/16-21/2017	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	11	2nd	640	US$16,000.00
FIVB	9/13-18/2016	2016 World Tour Finals Toronto		Country Quota	0	US$0.00

Vienna World Championships Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Fri, 7/28/2017	Pool G	Manon Nummerdor-Flier / Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands (42)	Won 21-13, 23-21	0:33
Sun, 7/30/2017	Pool G	Marta Menegatti / Rebecca Perry, Italy (31)	Won 21-16, 21-13	0:32
Mon, 7/31/2017	Pool G	Fan Wang / Yuan Yue, China (18)	Won 21-16, 21-13	0:34
Wed, 8/2/2017	Winner 1	Fernanda Alves / Barbara Seixas, Brazil (8)	Won 21-16, 21-10	0:35
Thu, 8/3/2017	Winner 2	Nina Brunner / Tanja Huberli, Switzerland (10)	Won 21-17, 23-21	0:39
Fri, 8/4/2017	Winner 3	Chantal Laboureur / Julia Sude, Germany (2)	Won 21-15, 21-16	0:40
Fri, 8/4/2017	Semi-Finals	Lauren Fendrick / April Ross, United States (14)	Lost 21-19, 16-21, 11-15	0:55
Sat, 8/5/2017	Bronze Medal	Talita Antunes / Larissa Maestrini, Brazil (1)	Lost 12-21, 21-16, 16-18	0:59

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2013	World Championships	Stare Jablonki	Did not play	Heather Bansley - 17th
2015	World Championships	The Hague	Taylor Pischke - 9th	Heather Bansley - 5th
2017	World Championships	Vienna	Sarah Pavan - 4th	Melissa Humana-Paredes - 4th
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	Sarah Pavan - 1st	Melissa Humana-Paredes - 1st
2022	World Championships	Rome	Sarah Pavan - 5th	Melissa Humana-Paredes - 5th
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Brandie Wilkerson - 5th	Molley McBain - 17th
2025	World Championships	Adelaide	Brandie Wilkerson - 5th	Did not play

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/28-8/5/2017	Vienna World Championships	7	4th	800	US$28,000.00
FIVB	6/28-7/6/2019	World Championships Hamburg	9	1st	1600	US$60,000.00
FIVB	6/10-19/2022	Beach Volleyball World Championships	10	5th	960	US$18,000.00

Team Finishes By Tournament Type

Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
Olympic Games	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$106,000.00
World Tour Finals	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$142,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	11	4	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	$220,000.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	22	1	6	1	4	3	0	5	0	2	0	0	$202,000.00
Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$16,000.00
Total	45	7	7	2	7	10	1	7	0	3	0	0	$686,000.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Melissa Humana-Paredes												Sarah Pavan
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	$0.00
6	1	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	0	$76,500.00	World Championships	6	1	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	$69,000.00
7	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	$88,500.00	World Tour Finals	7	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	$82,250.00
48	6	2	2	0	17	7	7	6	0	$287,100.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	49	4	2	4	0	10	11	12	4	0	$321,850.00
33	2	6	1	4	5	9	4	2	0	$115,975.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	36	1	7	2	4	7	9	5	1	0	$122,125.00
3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	$8,000.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	$8,000.00
2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	U23 World Championships
2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	U21 World Championships
2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships
105	10	11	5	7	31	19	12	8	0	$576,075.00	Total	103	7	10	6	8	23	22	19	5	0	$603,225.00

Team Finishes by Season

			Results												Matches
Season	Assoc	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Won	Lost	Pct
2016	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	0	1	0.0 %
2017	FIVB	7	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$126,000.00	35	8	81.4 %
Total	FIVB	8	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	$126,000.00	35	9	79.5 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Melissa Humana-Paredes													Sarah Pavan
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2009	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2010	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$1,000.00	2011	FIVB
1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2011	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2012	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$1,850.00	2013	FIVB	8	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	$15,850.00
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2013	FIVB Age Group WC
5	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	$21,500.00	2014	FIVB	10	0	0	0	0	3	1	5	1	0	$45,187.50
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2014	FIVB Age Group WC
10	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	3	1	$23,787.50	2015	FIVB	12	0	2	2	1	4	1	1	1	0	$103,687.50
13	0	0	0	0	1	4	4	3	1	$30,187.50	2016	FIVB	9	0	1	1	0	2	4	0	0	1	$63,500.00
7	1	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	$63,000.00	2017	FIVB	7	1	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	$63,000.00
43	1	3	3	2	4	11	9	8	2	$141,325.00	Total	Total	46	1	5	4	3	10	8	8	4	3	$291,225.00

Team Match Records

	Won 1st Set								Lost 1st Set								2 Set Matches		3 Set Matches		By Forfeit		All Matches
Season	Won 2-0		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Overall		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Lost 2-0		Overall		Overall		Overall		Won	Lost	Overall
Overall	119	77.3%	27	17.5%	8	5.2%	146-8	94.8%	24	31.6%	13	17.1%	39	51.3%	24-52	31.6%	119-39	75.3%	51-21	70.8%	0	0	170-60	73.9%
2016-2017	27	77.1%	5	14.3%	3	8.6%	32-3	91.4%	6	42.9%	2	14.3%	6	42.9%	6-8	42.9%	27-6	81.8%	11-5	68.8%	0	0	38-11	77.6%
Against the Field	41	74.5%	9	16.4%	5	9.1%	50-5	90.9%	8	25.8%	7	22.6%	16	51.6%	8-23	25.8%	82-32	71.9%	34-24	58.6%	0	0	58-28	67.4%

Team Match Records by Round

	Country Quota		Qualifier		Pool Play		Lucky Loser		Elimination Rounds		Semi-Finals		Bronze Medal		Gold Medal		Overall
Tournament Type	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost
Olympic Games	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
World Championships	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	8	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	19	3
World Tour Finals	0	1	0	0	9	3	0	0	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	13	8
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	23	4	0	0	12	5	4	1	1	0	4	0	44	10
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	34	9	0	0	34	11	7	5	1	4	1	6	78	35
Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	4	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	12	3
Total	0	1	0	0	84	16	0	0	62	20	14	9	2	7	7	7	170	60

Head to Head Results
Humana-Paredes/Pavan lead the series against the field 27-9 (Lead 14 Series, Trail 3 Series, 3 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Antunes/Maestrini, Brazil 0-3
8/5/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Bronze Medal	Antunes/Maestrini	1	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	21-12, 16-21, 18-16	0:59
7/23/17	FIVB	Olsztyn Four Star	Gold Medal	Antunes/Maestrini	1	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	3	20-22, 21-18, 16-14	0:50
7/8/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Semi-Finals	Antunes/Maestrini	2	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	21-16, 21-15	0:32
Series tied with # 2 Laboureur/Sude, Germany 1-1
8/4/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Laboureur/Sude	2	21-15, 21-16	0:40
6/2/17	FIVB	Moscow Three Star	Winner 2	Laboureur/Sude	3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	21-10, 21-16	0:31
Trail the series against # 3 Bednarczuk/Lisboa, Brazil 1-2
7/7/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	Bednarczuk/Lisboa	3	21-17, 21-17	0:34
6/18/17	FIVB	The Hague Three Star	Bronze Medal	Bednarczuk/Lisboa	4	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	10	16-21, 21-13, 15-11	0:47
5/21/17	FIVB	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	Gold Medal	Bednarczuk/Lisboa	4	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	11	21-14, 13-21, 15-13	0:50
Lead the series against # 4 Ludwig/Walkenhorst, Germany 1-0
5/20/17	FIVB	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	11	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	2	21-17, 21-13	0:31
Lead the series against # 6 Hermannova/Slukova, Czech Republic 3-0
7/1/17	FIVB	Porec Major Five Star	Gold Medal	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	6	Hermannova/Slukova	5	32-34, 21-12, 15-6	0:59
6/15/17	FIVB	The Hague Three Star	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	10	Hermannova/Slukova	7	21-19, 21-12	0:33
5/20/17	FIVB	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	Semi-Finals	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	11	Hermannova/Slukova	7	21-19, 21-19	0:40
Lead the series against # 8 Alves/Seixas, Brazil 2-0
8/2/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Winner 1	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Alves/Seixas	8	21-16, 21-10	0:35
7/1/17	FIVB	Porec Major Five Star	Semi-Finals	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	6	Alves/Seixas	7	21-16, 21-11	0:37
Trail the series against # 9 Antonelli/Salgado, Brazil 0-1
6/17/17	FIVB	The Hague Three Star	Semi-Finals	Antonelli/Salgado	15, Q1	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	10	21-19, 21-16	0:39
Lead the series against # 10 Brunner/Huberli, Switzerland 2-0
8/3/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Winner 2	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Brunner/Huberli	10	21-17, 23-21	0:39
6/1/17	FIVB	Moscow Three Star	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Brunner/Huberli	10	21-8, 21-12	0:27
Lead the series against # 11 Bawden/Clancy, Australia 1-0
5/18/17	FIVB	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	Pool F	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	11	Bawden/Clancy	6	21-11, 19-21, 16-14	0:42
Series tied with # 14 Fendrick/Ross, United States 1-1
8/4/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Semi-Finals	Fendrick/Ross	14	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	19-21, 21-16, 15-11	0:55
7/21/17	FIVB	Olsztyn Four Star	Winner 2	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	3	Fendrick/Ross	16	21-8, 21-15	0:30
Series tied with # 15 Bansley/Wilkerson, Canada 1-1
6/17/17	FIVB	The Hague Three Star	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	10	Bansley/Wilkerson	12	21-18, 21-7	0:31
9/13/16	FIVB	2016 World Tour Finals Toronto	Country Quota	Bansley/Wilkerson	4	Humana-Paredes/Pavan		23-21, 21-13	0:36
Lead the series against # 16 Cheng/Hughes, United States 2-0
7/6/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Pool E	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	Cheng/Hughes	12	21-12, 21-15	0:25
5/18/17	FIVB	Rio de Janeiro Four Star	Pool F	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	11	Cheng/Hughes	22	21-12, 25-23	0:36
Lead the series against # 17 Mader/Verge-Depre, Switzerland 3-0
7/22/17	FIVB	Olsztyn Four Star	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	3	Mader/Verge-Depre	7	21-15, 26-28, 15-10	0:57
7/8/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Bronze Medal	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	Mader/Verge-Depre	9	21-15, 21-12	0:35
6/30/17	FIVB	Porec Major Five Star	Winner 3	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	6	Mader/Verge-Depre	12	24-26, 21-15, 20-18	0:58
Lead the series against # 18 Wang/Yue, China 1-0
7/31/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Wang/Yue	18	21-16, 21-13	0:34
Lead the series against # 21 Borger/Kozuch, Germany 1-0
7/20/17	FIVB	Olsztyn Four Star	Pool C	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	3	Borger/Kozuch	19	17-21, 21-16, 15-10	0:52
Lead the series against # 23 Baquerizo/Navarro, Spain 1-0
7/5/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Pool E	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	Baquerizo/Navarro	21	21-17, 21-15	0:35
Lead the series against # 28 Glenzke/Grossner, Germany 1-0
7/7/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Winner 2	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	5	Glenzke/Grossner	20	21-13, 21-13	0:29
Lead the series against # 31 Menegatti/Perry, Italy 2-0
7/30/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Menegatti/Perry	31	21-16, 21-13	0:32
6/15/17	FIVB	The Hague Three Star	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	10	Menegatti/Perry	23	21-9, 21-9	0:26
Lead the series against # 32 Lima/Maia, Brazil 1-0
6/28/17	FIVB	Porec Major Five Star	Pool F	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	6	Lima/Maia	22, Q2	21-15, 21-23, 15-9	0:57
Lead the series against # 42 Nummerdor-Flier/Van Iersel, Netherlands 2-0
7/28/17	FIVB	Vienna World Championships	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Nummerdor-Flier/Van Iersel	42	21-13, 23-21	0:33
6/1/17	FIVB	Moscow Three Star	Pool G	Humana-Paredes/Pavan	7	Nummerdor-Flier/Van Iersel	26, Q6	21-14, 19-21, 15-12	0:42