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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 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Düsseldorf

Height:

186 cm (6'1")

Weight:

86 kg (189 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

134

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$802,839.18

Jonas Reckermann
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 26, 1979 (47 yrs old)

Home Town:

Rheine

Height:

200 cm (6'7")

Weight:

97 kg (213 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

122

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$800,573.76

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
CEV	9	3	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	US$103,603.82
FIVB	33	5	7	9	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	US$657,500.00
Overall	42	8	9	10	4	4	1	4	0	2	0	US$761,103.82

Previous Rome Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
CEV	5/6-10/2009	Spanish Masters	8	2nd	540	€ 5,500.00
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
Confederation Championship	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$46,500.00
Total	37	7	7	9	4	3	1	4	0	2	0	0	$704,000.00

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	5	$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	8	$290,260.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	56	2	14	6	4	11	6	10	1	2	$303,252.50
10	3	0	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	$43,250.00	Confederation Championship	9	4	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	$49,250.00
119	12	11	14	11	19	18	13	8	13	$714,585.00	Total	113	11	19	12	9	22	24	13	1	2	$740,677.50

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
2003	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,250.00	4	1	80.0 %
2009	FIVB	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00	11	3	78.6 %
2009	CEV	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$5,500.00	4	1	80.0 %
Total	FIVB	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00	11	3	78.6 %
Total	CEV	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$7,750.00	8	2	80.0 %

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
											2002	CEV	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$4,500.00
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
2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	$3,375.00	2003	CEV	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$7,375.00
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
3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	$2,500.00	2004	CEV	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$11,625.00
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
3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	$3,450.00	2005	CEV	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	$10,825.00
9	2	1	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	$88,700.00	2006	FIVB
4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$23,975.00	2006	CEV
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
3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$12,550.00	2007	CEV
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	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$6,600.00	2008	CEV	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$2,900.00
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
1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,750.00	2009	CEV	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,750.00
92	10	5	8	7	15	18	9	7	13	$410,210.00	Total	Total	84	5	15	4	5	21	20	11	1	2	$425,152.50

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
Confederation Championship	0	0	0	0	10	2	0	0	6	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	20	5
Total	0	0	0	0	61	8	0	0	78	16	14	13	9	4	7	7	182	51

Head to Head Results
Brink/Reckermann lead the series against the field 10-3 (Lead 9 Series, Trail 2 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 2-0
5/15/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	4	Klemperer/Koreng	5	21-23, 21-9, 15-8	1:04
5/8/09	CEV	Spanish Masters	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	8	Klemperer/Koreng	1	22-20, 19-21, 15-7	1:14
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 # 7 Dieckmann/Matysik, Germany 1-0
5/9/09	CEV	Spanish Masters	Semi-Finals	Brink/Reckermann	8	Dieckmann/Matysik	2	21-14, 21-18	0:42
Trail the series against # 12 Heuscher/Heyer, Switzerland 0-1
5/10/09	CEV	Spanish Masters	Gold Medal	Heuscher/Heyer	3	Brink/Reckermann	8	17-21, 21-16, 15-12	1:08
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