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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$400,000 le World Series 13
July 4 - 8, 2006

(2) Jia Tian/Jie Wang, China

Jia Tian
China

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Feb 9, 1981 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Tian Jin

Height:

177 cm (5'10")

Weight:

68 kg (150 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

115

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$574,775.00

Jie Wang
China

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Dec 4, 1985 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Xing Jiang

Height:

187 cm (6'3")

Weight:

72 kg (158 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$376,175.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	38	3	12	9	2	4	3	2	0	2	1	US$683,600.00
FIVB C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$5,000.00
Overall	39	4	12	9	2	4	3	2	0	2	1	US$688,600.00

Previous Marseille Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1998	Suhong Zhou - 41st	Did not play
1999	Bo Han - 41st	Did not play
2000	Jingkun Zhang - 13th	Did not play
2001	Fei Wang - 9th	Did not play
2002	Fei Wang - 25th	Did not play
2003	Fei Wang - 5th	Linjun Ji - 33rd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/27-7/1/2006	Norway Grand Slam	2	5th	480	US$12,800.00
FIVB	6/20-24/2006	Switzerland Grand Slam	4	3rd	640	US$22,100.00
FIVB	5/31-6/4/2006	Greece Open	4	7th	300	US$8,000.00
FIVB	5/24-28/2006	China Open	3	2nd	540	US$22,000.00
FIVB	5/10-14/2006	Italian Open	22	3rd	480	US$16,000.00

France Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Wed, 7/5/2006	Winner 1	Susanne Glesnes / Kathrine Maaseide, Norway (31, Q11)	Won 21-15, 21-11	0:33
Thu, 7/6/2006	Winner 2	Rieke Brink-Abeler / Hella Jurich, Germany (15)	Won 21-16, 18-21, 15-8	0:50
Thu, 7/6/2006	Winner 3	Leila Barros / Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil (7, Q1)	Lost 16-21, 16-21	0:36
Thu, 7/6/2006	Contender 4	Natalie Cook / Nicole Sanderson, Australia (13)	Won 21-19, 21-14	0:35
Fri, 7/7/2006	Contender 5	Vasiliki Arvaniti / Vasso Karadassiou, Greece (6)	Won 21-19, 20-22, 15-10	0:56
Fri, 7/7/2006	Contender 6	Talita Antunes / Renata Ribeiro, Brazil (5)	Won 14-21, 27-25, 15-12	0:48
Sat, 7/8/2006	Semi-Finals	Shelda Bede / Adriana Behar, Brazil (3)	Lost 18-21, 17-21	0:50
Sat, 7/8/2006	Bronze Medal	Leila Barros / Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil (7, Q1)	Lost 19-21, 21-17, 18-20	1:07

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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	13	1	4	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	$282,600.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	23	2	6	6	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	0	$356,000.00
Challenger	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$5,000.00
Total	39	4	12	9	2	4	3	2	0	2	1	0	$688,600.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Jia Tian												Jie Wang
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
3	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
5	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	$43,875.00	World Championships	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$22,500.00
25	1	4	6	2	4	1	4	3	0	$205,300.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	16	1	4	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	$141,300.00
80	4	7	6	3	17	20	9	7	0	$322,650.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	34	2	7	6	2	7	5	3	1	0	$209,875.00
2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,950.00	Challenger	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,500.00
115	6	13	13	5	21	23	16	10	0	$574,775.00	Total	53	4	13	9	3	9	5	4	2	0	$376,175.00

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
2006	FIVB	6	0	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$92,900.00	28	11	71.8 %
Total	FIVB	6	0	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$92,900.00	28	11	71.8 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Jia Tian													Jie Wang
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	$1,400.00	1998	FIVB
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	$1,000.00	1999	FIVB
12	0	0	0	0	1	4	4	3	0	$15,000.00	2000	FIVB
9	0	0	0	0	3	3	3	0	0	$24,125.00	2001	FIVB
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$450.00	2001	FIVB C&S
9	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	0	$20,550.00	2002	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
12	2	0	0	1	3	2	4	0	0	$55,250.00	2003	FIVB	8	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	3	$9,500.00
9	0	0	0	1	0	4	3	1	0	$18,750.00	2004	FIVB
12	0	1	4	1	4	2	0	0	0	$92,000.00	2005	FIVB
6	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	$46,450.00	2006	FIVB	6	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	$46,450.00
81	2	2	6	4	16	20	14	9	8	$274,975.00	Total	Total	15	0	1	2	1	3	2	2	0	4	$55,950.00

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	120	76.4%	24	15.3%	13	8.3%	144-13	91.7%	28	37.3%	7	9.3%	40	53.3%	28-47	37.3%	120-40	75.0%	52-20	72.2%	3	0	175-60	74.5%
2005-2006	37	68.5%	10	18.5%	7	13.0%	47-7	87.0%	12	48.0%	4	16.0%	9	36.0%	12-13	48.0%	37-9	80.4%	22-11	66.7%	1	0	60-20	75.0%
Against the Field	81	75.7%	15	14.0%	11	10.3%	96-11	89.7%	21	38.2%	6	10.9%	28	50.9%	21-34	38.2%	162-50	76.4%	72-34	67.9%	3	0	120-42	74.1%

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	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	1
World Championships	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	25	8	0	0	25	4	5	4	3	1	1	4	60	22
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	63	14	8	7	6	1	2	6	102	36
Challenger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
Total	0	0	0	0	31	8	0	0	96	18	16	11	9	2	4	12	180	60

Head to Head Results
Tian/Wang lead the series against the field 23-9 (Lead 16 Series, Trail 4 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Felisberta/Maestrini, Brazil 0-2
6/24/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Semi-Finals	Felisberta/Maestrini	2	Tian/Wang	4	18-21, 30-28, 16-14	1:25
5/12/06	FIVB	Italian Open	Winner 4	Felisberta/Maestrini	2	Tian/Wang	22	15-21, 21-15, 15-13	0:55
Series tied with # 3 Bede/Behar, Brazil 1-1
7/8/06	FIVB	France Open	Semi-Finals	Bede/Behar	3	Tian/Wang	2	21-18, 21-17	0:50
5/26/06	FIVB	China Open	Winner 4	Tian/Wang	3	Bede/Behar	2	21-19, 25-23	0:41
Lead the series against # 4 Xue/Zhang, China 2-1
6/24/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Bronze Medal	Tian/Wang	4	Xue/Zhang	21	21-19, 21-14	0:45
6/22/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Winner 3	Tian/Wang	4	Xue/Zhang	21	21-15, 15-21, 23-21	1:00
5/28/06	FIVB	China Open	Gold Medal	Xue/Zhang	25	Tian/Wang	3	23-21, 21-14	0:38
Lead the series against # 5 Antunes/Ribeiro, Brazil 2-1
7/7/06	FIVB	France Open	Contender 6	Tian/Wang	2	Antunes/Ribeiro	5	14-21, 27-25, 15-12	0:48
6/3/06	FIVB	Greece Open	Contender 5	Antunes/Ribeiro	8	Tian/Wang	4	22-20, 15-21, 23-21	1:01
5/12/06	FIVB	Italian Open	Winner 3	Tian/Wang	22	Antunes/Ribeiro	3	29-27, 21-19	0:49
Lead the series against # 6 Arvaniti/Karadassiou, Greece 3-0
7/7/06	FIVB	France Open	Contender 5	Tian/Wang	2	Arvaniti/Karadassiou	6	21-19, 20-22, 15-10	0:56
5/13/06	FIVB	Italian Open	Contender 6	Tian/Wang	22	Arvaniti/Karadassiou	6	21-15, 21-19	0:39
5/11/06	FIVB	Italian Open	Winner 2	Tian/Wang	22	Arvaniti/Karadassiou	6	21-15, 21-16	0:39
Trail the series against # 7, Q1 Barros/Connelly, Brazil 0-2
7/8/06	FIVB	France Open	Bronze Medal	Barros/Connelly	7, Q1	Tian/Wang	2	21-19, 17-21, 20-18	1:07
7/6/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 3	Barros/Connelly	7, Q1	Tian/Wang	2	21-16, 21-16	0:36
Lead the series against # 12 Fernandez Grasset/Larrea Peraza, Cuba 1-0
5/25/06	FIVB	China Open	Winner 2	Tian/Wang	3	Fernandez Grasset/Larrea Peraza	14	16-21, 21-12, 15-8	0:43
Lead the series against # 13 Cook/Sanderson, Australia 1-0
7/6/06	FIVB	France Open	Contender 4	Tian/Wang	2	Cook/Sanderson	13	21-19, 21-14	0:35
Lead the series against # 15 Brink-Abeler/Jurich, Germany 2-0
7/6/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 2	Tian/Wang	2	Brink-Abeler/Jurich	15	21-16, 18-21, 15-8	0:50
6/29/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool B	Tian/Wang	2	Brink-Abeler/Jurich	15	21-17, 15-21, 16-14	0:54
Lead the series against # 16 Schwaiger/Schwaiger, Austria 1-0
6/29/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool B	Tian/Wang	2	Schwaiger/Schwaiger	18	21-14, 21-14	0:32
Trail the series against # 17 Pohl/Rau, Germany 0-1
6/30/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Winner 3	Pohl/Rau	23	Tian/Wang	2	21-17, 21-14	0:37
Lead the series against # 18 Zhang/Zuo, China 1-0
5/27/06	FIVB	China Open	Semi-Finals	Tian/Wang	3	Zhang/Zuo	9, Q15	21-15, 21-12	0:44
Lead the series against # 21, Q5 Koizumi/Tanaka, Japan 1-0
6/1/06	FIVB	Greece Open	Contender 1	Tian/Wang	4	Koizumi/Tanaka	20	21-13, 21-17	0:36
Lead the series against # 24 Koutroumanidou/Tsiartsiani, Greece 1-0
6/2/06	FIVB	Greece Open	Contender 4	Tian/Wang	4	Koutroumanidou/Tsiartsiani	9	21-13, 25-27, 15-12	0:56
Lead the series against # 25 Keizer/Leenstra, Netherlands 1-0
5/11/06	FIVB	Italian Open	Winner 1	Tian/Wang	22	Keizer/Leenstra	11	21-19, 21-10	0:33
Lead the series against # 29, Q3 Kusuhara/Urata, Japan 1-0
6/2/06	FIVB	Greece Open	Contender 3	Tian/Wang	4	Kusuhara/Urata	28, Q2	21-11, 21-13	0:38
Trail the series against # 30, Q8 Gerlic/Kloeden, Australia 0-1
6/1/06	FIVB	Greece Open	Winner 1	Gerlic/Kloeden	29, Q5	Tian/Wang	4	16-21, 22-20, 15-12	0:58
Lead the series against # 31, Q11 Glesnes/Maaseide, Norway 1-0
7/5/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 1	Tian/Wang	2	Glesnes/Maaseide	31, Q11	21-15, 21-11	0:33
Lead the series against Banck/Lahme, Germany 1-0
6/21/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Winner 1	Tian/Wang	4	Banck/Lahme	29	21-11, 21-11	0:33
Lead the series against Salgado/Salgado, Brazil 1-0
5/26/06	FIVB	China Open	Winner 3	Tian/Wang	3	Salgado/Salgado	6	22-20, 21-13	0:40
Lead the series against # Q14 Petrova/Skalnikova, Czech Republic 2-0
6/28/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool B	Tian/Wang	2	Petrova/Skalnikova	31, Q22	21-16, 21-18	0:32
5/25/06	FIVB	China Open	Winner 1	Tian/Wang	3	Petrova/Skalnikova	30, Q20	22-24, 21-14, 15-8	0:49