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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$190,000 Foro Italico Open presented by Skipper
May 12 - 17, 2009

(4) Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann, Germany

Julius Brink
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 6, 1982 (43 yrs old)

Home Town:

Düsseldorf

Height:

186 cm (6'1")

Weight:

86 kg (189 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

109

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$671,335.00

Jonas Reckermann
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 26, 1979 (46 yrs old)

Home Town:

Rheine

Height:

200 cm (6'7")

Weight:

97 kg (213 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

104

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$691,427.50

Awards

Team of the Year 2009 (with Jonas Reckermann)
Tour Champion 2009 (with Jonas Reckermann)

Awards

Best Blocker 2009
Team of the Year 2009 (with Julius Brink)
Tour Champion 2009 (with Julius Brink)

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	33	5	7	9	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	US$657,500.00

Previous Rome Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	4/29-5/3/2009	Shanghai Open	3	3rd	480	US$15,000.00

Rome Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 5/14/2009	Winner 1	Iver Horrem / Bjorn Maaseide, Norway (29)	Won 22-20, 21-18	0:53
Thu, 5/14/2009	Winner 2	Jason Lochhead / Kirk Pitman, New Zealand (13)	Won 21-19, 21-12	0:44
Fri, 5/15/2009	Winner 3	David Klemperer / Eric Koreng, Germany (5)	Won 21-23, 21-9, 15-8	1:04
Fri, 5/15/2009	Winner 4	Alison Cerutti / Harley Marques, Brazil (1)	Lost 20-22, 15-21	0:49
Sat, 5/16/2009	Contender 6	Renato "Geor" Gomes / Gia Terceiro, Georgia (23)	Won 21-18, 21-18	0:52
Sat, 5/16/2009	Semi-Finals	Emanuel Rego / Ricardo Santos, Brazil (3)	Won 21-12, 21-19	0:42
Sun, 5/17/2009	Gold Medal	Pedro Cunha / Pedro Solberg, Brazil (2)	Won 28-26, 20-22, 15-13	1:23

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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$95,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	17	2	3	4	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	$357,800.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	13	1	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	$204,700.00
Total	33	5	7	9	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	$657,500.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Julius Brink												Jonas Reckermann
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00
4	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	$68,500.00	World Championships	6	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	$63,250.00
44	2	3	7	7	7	6	3	4	0	$312,575.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	40	3	4	4	4	11	13	1	0	0	$324,925.00
59	5	8	5	2	11	9	7	4	0	$290,260.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	56	2	14	6	4	11	6	10	1	0	$303,252.50
109	9	11	14	9	18	15	12	8	0	$671,335.00	Total	104	7	18	11	8	22	22	13	1	0	$691,427.50

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
2009	FIVB	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00	11	3	78.6 %
Total	FIVB	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00	11	3	78.6 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Julius Brink													Jonas Reckermann
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	1	0	0	0	$2,000.00	2000	FIVB
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	$0.00	2001	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	2	$19,000.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	$3,210.00	2002	FIVB	7	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	$17,652.50
9	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	6	$4,500.00	2003	FIVB	9	0	2	0	1	3	1	2	0	0	$47,500.00
12	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	6	1	$19,375.00	2004	FIVB	11	2	2	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	$78,500.00
9	1	0	2	0	2	3	1	0	0	$65,175.00	2005	FIVB	9	0	3	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	$65,625.00
9	2	1	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	$88,700.00	2006	FIVB
12	0	0	0	3	4	3	1	1	0	$58,050.00	2007	FIVB	13	0	2	0	0	4	4	3	0	0	$60,350.00
12	1	3	1	2	3	1	1	0	0	$91,500.00	2008	FIVB	13	0	2	1	1	4	3	2	0	0	$74,050.00
2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$22,500.00	2009	FIVB	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$22,500.00
74	5	4	6	6	13	12	8	7	13	$355,010.00	Total	Total	73	3	11	3	5	18	19	11	1	2	$385,177.50

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	107	76.4%	19	13.6%	14	10.0%	126-14	90.0%	33	50.8%	6	9.2%	26	40.0%	33-32	50.8%	107-26	80.5%	52-20	72.2%	3	0	162-46	77.9%
2008-2009	37	77.1%	6	12.5%	5	10.4%	43-5	89.6%	10	62.5%	0	0.0%	6	37.5%	10-6	62.5%	37-6	86.0%	16-5	76.2%	2	0	55-11	83.3%
Against the Field	39	79.6%	6	12.2%	4	8.2%	45-4	91.8%	14	66.7%	0	0.0%	7	33.3%	14-7	66.7%	78-10	88.6%	40-8	83.3%	2	0	61-9	87.1%

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	1	0	7	0
World Championships	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	6	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	15	1
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	42	6	0	0	27	6	5	6	4	2	2	3	80	23
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	37	9	5	5	4	1	1	4	60	22
Total	0	0	0	0	51	6	0	0	72	15	12	12	9	3	5	7	162	46

Head to Head Results
Brink/Reckermann lead the series against the field 8-2 (Lead 8 Series, Trail 1 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Cerutti/Marques, Brazil 0-2
5/15/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 4	Cerutti/Marques	1	Brink/Reckermann	4	22-20, 21-15	0:49
5/3/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Semi-Finals	Cerutti/Marques	1	Brink/Reckermann	3	17-21, 21-17, 16-14	1:11
Lead the series against # 2 Cunha/Solberg, Brazil 1-0
5/17/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Gold Medal	Brink/Reckermann	4	Cunha/Solberg	2	28-26, 20-22, 15-13	1:23
Lead the series against # 3 Rego/Santos, Brazil 1-0
5/16/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Semi-Finals	Brink/Reckermann	4	Rego/Santos	3	21-12, 21-19	0:42
Lead the series against # 5 Klemperer/Koreng, Germany 1-0
5/15/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	4	Klemperer/Koreng	5	21-23, 21-9, 15-8	1:04
Lead the series against # 6 Barsuk/Kolodinsky, Russia 1-0
5/1/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	3	Barsuk/Kolodinsky	6	21-12, 21-12	0:37
Lead the series against # 13 Lochhead/Pitman, New Zealand 1-0
5/14/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	4	Lochhead/Pitman	13	21-19, 21-12	0:44
Lead the series against # 23 "Geor" Gomes/Terceiro, Georgia 1-0
5/16/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Contender 6	Brink/Reckermann	4	"Geor" Gomes/Terceiro	23	21-18, 21-18	0:52
Lead the series against # 29 Horrem/Maaseide, Norway 1-0
5/14/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 1	Brink/Reckermann	4	Horrem/Maaseide	29	22-20, 21-18	0:53
Lead the series against Insfran/Moreira, Brazil 1-0
5/2/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 6	Brink/Reckermann	3	Insfran/Moreira	9, Q1	21-17, 21-14	0:41