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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$190,000 Seoul Open
May 27 - 31, 2009

(14) Vasiliki Arvaniti/Maria Tsiartsiani, Greece

Vasiliki Arvaniti
Greece

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Mar 17, 1985 (40 yrs old)

Home Town:

Athens

Height:

176 cm (6'0")

Weight:

68 kg (150 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

184

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$510,556.00

Maria Tsiartsiani
Greece

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Oct 21, 1980 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Thessaloniki

Height:

180 cm (5'11")

Weight:

68 kg (150 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

151

Career Best:

2nd (2 times)

Career Winnings:

US$342,050.00

Awards

Most Improved Player 2005

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	25	33	41	Money
FIVB	67	0	1	0	1	6	5	15	7	15	1	7	6	3	US$346,025.00

Previous Seoul Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2007	Vasso Karadassiou - 17th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 13th
2008	Vasso Karadassiou - 9th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 17th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/19-24/2009	Japan Open	14	5th	360	US$9,100.00
FIVB	4/20-25/2009	Brasilia Open	15	7th	300	US$7,600.00

Seoul Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 5/28/2009	Winner 1	Danielle Remmers / Marloes Wesselink, Netherlands (19)	Lost 16-21, 28-26, 11-15	0:54
Thu, 5/28/2009	Contender 1	Maria Prokopeva / Evgenia Ukolova, Russia (30, Q9)	Lost 21-15, 18-21, 8-15	0:47

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	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	$18,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	34	0	1	0	0	1	0	10	0	9	4	0	$184,000.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	30	0	0	0	1	5	5	4	7	5	3	0	$144,025.00
Total	67	0	1	0	1	6	5	15	7	16	7	0	$346,025.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Vasiliki Arvaniti												Maria Tsiartsiani
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	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$0.00
6	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	$26,150.00	World Championships	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	$20,187.50
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	World Tour Finals
70	1	2	0	1	8	20	14	9	0	$247,850.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	56	0	1	0	0	1	15	14	12	0	$137,100.00
97	0	1	0	5	27	25	19	12	0	$231,587.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	86	0	1	1	2	14	24	24	13	0	$184,262.50
4	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	$4,500.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star
											Challenger	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	$500.00
2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	U21 World Championships
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships
184	3	3	0	7	37	50	38	21	0	$510,087.50	Total	151	0	2	1	2	15	43	41	26	0	$342,050.00

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
2009	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	$18,700.00	7	6	53.8 %
Total	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	$18,700.00	7	6	53.8 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Vasiliki Arvaniti													Maria Tsiartsiani
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
											2000	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$150.00
											2001	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$350.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2001	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2002	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	$825.00
2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2002	FIVB Age Group WC
11	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	1	2	$23,750.00	2003	FIVB	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	$7,312.50
13	0	0	0	0	1	3	5	4	0	$23,625.00	2004	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	1	$14,625.00
13	1	1	0	1	6	4	0	0	0	$83,250.00	2005	FIVB	15	0	1	1	0	2	5	4	2	0	$56,975.00
12	0	0	0	1	6	2	1	2	0	$48,425.00	2006	FIVB	13	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	1	1	$24,650.00
13	0	0	0	2	4	5	2	0	0	$56,700.00	2007	FIVB	17	0	0	0	1	1	4	6	4	1	$38,700.00
11	0	1	0	1	2	4	3	0	0	$44,800.00	2008	FIVB	14	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	3	0	$25,450.00
3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	$9,350.00	2009	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	$9,350.00
80	1	2	0	6	23	22	15	8	3	$289,900.00	Total	Total	87	0	1	1	1	6	21	25	20	12	$178,387.50

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	85	63.4%	23	17.2%	26	19.4%	108-26	80.6%	26	19.1%	26	19.1%	84	61.8%	26-110	19.1%	85-84	50.3%	49-52	48.5%	1	1	135-137	49.6%
2008-2009	24	77.4%	5	16.1%	2	6.5%	29-2	93.5%	7	20.0%	6	17.1%	22	62.9%	7-28	20.0%	24-22	52.2%	12-8	60.0%	0	0	36-30	54.5%
Against the Field	22	61.1%	8	22.2%	6	16.7%	30-6	83.3%	7	12.1%	11	19.0%	40	69.0%	7-51	12.1%	44-80	35.5%	30-34	46.9%	0	0	37-57	39.4%

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	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
World Championships	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	10	9	32	40	0	0	14	20	1	0	0	0	0	1	57	70
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	10	10	0	0	34	27	0	1	0	1	0	0	71	62
Total	0	0	10	9	48	53	0	0	49	49	1	1	0	1	0	1	135	137

Head to Head Results
Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani lead the series against the field 7-4 (Lead 5 Series, Trail 2 Series, 2 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 4 Antonelli/Antunes, Brazil 1-0
4/23/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 3	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	Antonelli/Antunes	7	15-21, 21-17, 19-17	1:01
Trail the series against # 7, Q1 Leao/Ribeiro, Brazil 0-1
4/24/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 5	Leao/Ribeiro	6, Q1	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	21-18, 21-19	0:45
Lead the series against # 8 Huang/Zhang, China 1-0
5/21/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 2	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	Huang/Zhang	3	21-17, 18-21, 15-11	0:51
Series tied with # 12 Keizer/Van Iersel, Netherlands 1-1
5/23/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Contender 6	Keizer/Van Iersel	13	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	21-19, 21-12	0:32
4/23/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 4	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	Keizer/Van Iersel	13	15-21, 22-20, 19-17	1:11
Series tied with # 19 Remmers/Wesselink, Netherlands 1-1
5/28/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Winner 1	Remmers/Wesselink	19	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	21-16, 26-28, 15-11	0:54
4/23/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 2	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	Remmers/Wesselink	16	21-14, 21-17	0:35
Lead the series against # 26 Esteves Ribalta/Fernandez Grasset, Cuba 1-0
5/21/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 1	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	Esteves Ribalta/Fernandez Grasset	19	21-19, 21-19	0:41
Lead the series against # 27 Candelas/Garcia, Mexico 1-0
4/22/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Winner 1	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	Candelas/Garcia	18	21-13, 21-13	0:32
Trail the series against # 30, Q9 Prokopeva/Ukolova, Russia 0-1
5/28/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Contender 1	Prokopeva/Ukolova	30, Q9	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	15-21, 21-18, 15-8	0:47
Lead the series against # Q5 Hansel/Montagnolli, Austria 1-0
5/22/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 3	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	Hansel/Montagnolli	27	22-20, 21-17	0:46