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June 25 - July 4, 2009

(20) Vasiliki Arvaniti/Maria Tsiartsiani, Greece

Vasiliki Arvaniti
Greece

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Mar 17, 1985 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Athens

Height:

176 cm (6'0")

Weight:

68 kg (150 lb)

Seasons:

18

Tournaments:

184

Career Wins:

3

Career Winnings:

US$510,556.00

Maria Tsiartsiani
Greece

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Oct 21, 1980 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Thessaloniki

Height:

180 cm (5'11")

Weight:

68 kg (150 lb)

Seasons:

15

Tournaments:

151

Career Best:

2nd (2 times)

Career Winnings:

US$342,050.00

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 Stavanger Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 17th	Katerina Nikolaidou - 33rd
2004	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 9th	Katerina Nikolaidou - 25th
2005	Vasso Karadassiou - 1st	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 13th
2006	Vasso Karadassiou - 9th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 17th
2007	Vasso Karadassiou - 5th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 25th
2008	Vasso Karadassiou - 2nd	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 9th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/27-31/2009	Seoul Open	14	25th	60	US$2,000.00
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

Stavanger World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 6/26/2009

Pool E

Barbara Hansel / Sara Montagnolli, Austria (29)

Won 21-13, 21-12

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	Total	10	7	0	0.700	0	9	2	2
	1	7	5	0	0.714	0	6	0	1
	2	3	2	0	0.667	0	3	2	1
Maria Tsiartsiani	Total	22	15	2	0.591	5	6	1	2
	1	9	7	0	0.778	3	1	1	1
	2	13	8	2	0.462	2	5	0	1

Sun, 6/28/2009

Pool E

Lucy Boulton / Denise Johns, England (44)

Won 21-14, 21-17

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	Total	13	5	2	0.231	0	5	2	3
	1	8	4	1	0.375	0	2	2	1
	2	5	1	1	0.000	0	3	0	2
Maria Tsiartsiani	Total	27	17	2	0.556	5	7	0	2
	1	9	6	0	0.667	2	2	0	2
	2	18	11	2	0.500	3	5	0	0

Tue, 6/30/2009

Pool E

Shelda Bede / Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil (5)

Lost 17-21, 17-21

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	Total	17	8	3	0.294	0	7	1	2
	1	7	4	0	0.571	0	3	1	1
	2	10	4	3	0.100	0	4	0	1
Maria Tsiartsiani	Total	32	19	1	0.563	0	12	0	0
	1	14	9	0	0.643	0	6	0	0
	2	18	10	1	0.500	0	6	0	0

Thu, 7/2/2009

Winner 1

Tatiana Barrera / Virginie Sarpaux, France (35)

Won 21-17, 21-15

0:43

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	Total	16	9	0	0.563	0	10	2	5
	1	7	3	0	0.429	0	2	1	3
	2	9	6	0	0.667	0	8	1	2
Maria Tsiartsiani	Total	38	19	1	0.474	2	12	0	3
	1	14	9	1	0.571	1	4	0	2
	2	24	10	0	0.417	1	8	0	1

Fri, 7/3/2009

Winner 2

Jennifer Kessy / April Ross, United States (1)

Lost 11-21, 12-21

0:32

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	Total	13	8	1	0.538	0	1	1	4
	1	8	5	0	0.625	0	1	1	3
	2	5	3	1	0.400	0	0	0	1
Maria Tsiartsiani	Total	23	8	8	0.000	0	2	0	3
	1	7	1	3	-0.286	0	1	0	2
	2	16	7	5	0.125	0	1	0	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Vasiliki Arvaniti	69	37	6	0.449	0	32	8	16
Maria Tsiartsiani	142	78	14	0.451	12	39	1	10
Total	211	115	20	0.450	12	71	9	26
Opponents	207	102	28	0.357	9	65	22	27

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	World Championships	Rio de Janeiro	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 17th	Katerina Nikolaidou - 37th
2005	World Championships	Berlin	Vasso Karadassiou - 9th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 9th
2007	World Championships	Gstaad	Vasso Karadassiou - 9th	Efthalia Koutroumanidou - 17th
2011	World Championships	Rome	Maria Tsiartsiani - 17th	Vasiliki Arvaniti - 17th
2013	World Championships	Stare Jablonki	Penny Karagkouni - 33rd	Did not play

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/25-7/4/2009	Stavanger World Championships	20	9th	400	US$11,000.00
FIVB	6/13-19/2011	Rome World Championships	19	17th	200	US$7,000.00

Head to Head Results
Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani lead the series against the field 9-6 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 5 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Kessy/Ross, United States 0-1
7/3/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 2	Kessy/Ross	1	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	20	21-11, 21-12	0:32
Lead the series against # 2 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 # 4 Branagh/Youngs, United States 0-1
4/22/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Winner 2	Branagh/Youngs	2	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	21-18, 21-11	0:39
Trail the series against # 5 Bede/Connelly, Brazil 0-1
6/30/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool E	Bede/Connelly	5	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	20	21-17, 21-17	0:38
Trail the series against # 6 Akers/Turner, United States 0-1
5/22/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 4	Akers/Turner	26	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	21-17, 21-14	0:35
Series tied with # 14 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
Lead the series against # 15 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
Lead the series against # 29 Hansel/Montagnolli, Austria 2-0
6/26/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool E	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	20	Hansel/Montagnolli	29	21-13, 21-12	0:34
5/22/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 3	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	14	Hansel/Montagnolli	27	22-20, 21-17	0:46
Lead the series against # 34 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
Lead the series against # 35 Barrera/Sarpaux, France 1-0
7/2/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 1	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	20	Barrera/Sarpaux	35	21-17, 21-15	0:43
Lead the series against # 42 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 # 44 Boulton/Johns, England 1-0
6/28/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool E	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	20	Boulton/Johns	44	21-14, 21-17	0:38
Trail the series against # 47 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