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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$150,000 Portugal Open
July 23 - 27, 2003

(Q7) Mikhail Kouchnerev/Sergey Sayfulin, Russia

Mikhail Kouchnerev
Russia

Photo: Raymond Wardenær

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 27, 1972 (54 yrs old)

Home Town:

Moscow

Height:

192 cm (6'4")

Weight:

82 kg (180 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

104

Career Best:

3rd (FIVB Tenerife 2000)

Career Winnings:

US$118,786.63

Sergey Sayfulin
Russia

Photo: Raymond Wardenær

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 27, 1968 (58 yrs old)

Home Town:

Kemerovo

Height:

197 cm (6'6")

Weight:

100 kg (220 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

4th (CEV Bilbao 2000)

Career FIVB WT Best:

9th (3 times)

Career Winnings:

US$62,552.24

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	25	29	33	41	Money
CEV	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	US$4,060.45
FIVB	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	7	0	7	8	US$27,650.00
FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$800.00
Overall	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	4	1	8	1	7	8	US$32,510.45

Previous Espinho Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1996	Dmitry Areshkin - 25th	Dmitri Kouvitchka - 17th
1997	Sergey Sayfulin - 25th	Mikhail Kouchnerev - 25th
1998	Dmitry Karasev - 25th	Rushan Dayanov - 25th
1999	Sergey Ermishin - 9th	Dmitry Karasev - 17th
2000	Sergey Ermishin - 17th	Dmitry Karasev - 25th
2001	Sergey Ermishin - 5th	Dmitri Kouvitchka - 41st
2002	Sergey Sayfulin - 9th	Mikhail Kouchnerev - 9th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
CEV	7/9-13/2003	Greek Open		25th	8	€ 0.00
FIVB	7/2-6/2003	Norway Open	24, Q4	25th	30	US$2,000.00
FIVB	6/25-29/2003	Germany Grand Slam	Q5	41st	18	US$0.00
FIVB	6/18-22/2003	Switzerland Open	Q3	33rd	18	US$0.00
FIVB	6/4-8/2003	Hellas Open	Q5	41st	10	US$0.00
FIVB	9/4-8/2002	Spain Open	Q3	33rd	18	US$0.00
CEV	8/30-9/1/2002	European Championships	19	17th	20	€ 450.00
FIVB	8/7-11/2002	Spain Open	Q2	41st	10	US$0.00
FIVB	8/1-4/2002	Austria Grand Slam	34	25th	40	US$2,000.00
FIVB	7/24-28/2002	Portugal Open	27	9th	120	US$3,900.00

Portugal Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 7/24/2003	Qualifier 2	Timour Petreaev / Alexander Shapranovich, Israel (Q26)	Won 21-19, 19-21, 15-12	0:57
Thu, 7/24/2003	Qualifier 3	Marcel Gscheidle / Bernhard Vesti, Switzerland (28, Q10)	Lost 23-25, 27-25, 10-15	1:11

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$)
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	$6,800.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	4	11	$20,850.00
Challenger	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$800.00
Confederation Championship	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	$1,950.00
Total	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	5	7	16	$30,400.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Mikhail Kouchnerev												Sergey Sayfulin
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games
3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	$5,250.00	World Championships	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$1,500.00
12	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	5	4	$14,700.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	6	$7,200.00
71	0	0	1	1	4	11	15	17	22	$81,475.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	64	0	0	0	0	0	7	18	17	22	$43,650.00
3	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	$1,375.00	Challenger	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$400.00
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$4,000.00	Goodwill Games
6	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	$5,675.00	Confederation Championship	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	$5,925.00
97	0	0	1	1	7	18	20	22	28	$112,475.00	Total	83	0	0	0	1	1	8	22	22	29	$58,675.00

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
2002	FIVB	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	$13,450.00	8	12	40.0 %
2002	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$450.00	0	2	0.0 %
2003	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$2,000.00	6	7	46.2 %
2003	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$0.00	1	1	50.0 %
Total	FIVB	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	6	$15,450.00	14	19	42.4 %
Total	CEV	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	$450.00	1	3	25.0 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Mikhail Kouchnerev													Sergey Sayfulin
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	$4,250.00	1996	FIVB	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	$7,750.00
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	3	$5,100.00	1997	FIVB	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	$5,100.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$400.00	1997	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$400.00
10	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	5	1	$8,700.00	1998	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	3	$4,450.00
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$1,400.00	1998	CEV
12	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	4	$12,750.00	1999	FIVB	11	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	2	1	$13,000.00
2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	$1,587.50	1999	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$2,250.00
13	0	0	1	0	2	4	4	2	0	$25,000.00	2000	FIVB	10	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	0	$10,000.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$1,125.00	2000	CEV	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$2,700.00
11	0	0	0	1	4	4	1	1	0	$37,250.00	2001	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	$2,500.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,325.00	2001	CEV
9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	2	$8,375.00	2002	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	3	$7,550.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$225.00	2002	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$225.00
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$1,000.00	2003	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$1,000.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$0.00	2003	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$0.00
82	0	0	1	1	7	19	18	20	16	$109,487.50	Total	Total	73	0	0	0	1	1	8	21	22	20	$56,925.00

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	11	52.4%	4	19.0%	6	28.6%	15-6	71.4%	3	13.0%	4	17.4%	16	69.6%	3-20	13.0%	11-16	40.7%	7-10	41.2%	0	2	18-28	39.1%
2002-2003	10	58.8%	2	11.8%	5	29.4%	12-5	70.6%	3	16.7%	4	22.2%	11	61.1%	3-15	16.7%	10-11	47.6%	5-9	35.7%	0	0	15-20	42.9%
Against the Field	8	57.1%	2	14.3%	4	28.6%	10-4	71.4%	1	6.7%	4	26.7%	10	66.7%	1-14	6.7%	16-16	50.0%	6-16	27.3%	0	2	11-18	37.9%

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
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	1	4	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	10	9	5	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	20
Confederation Championship	0	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6
Total	0	0	13	14	7	14	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	34

Head to Head Results
Kouchnerev/Sayfulin trail the series against the field 9-12 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 8 Series, 2 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 4 Baracetti/Conde, Argentina 1-0
7/6/02	FIVB	Norway Open	Pool C	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	30	Baracetti/Conde	3	22-20, 21-19	0:49
Trail the series against # 6 Hoidalen/Kjemperud, Norway 0-1
7/5/03	FIVB	Norway Open	Pool H	Hoidalen/Kjemperud	9	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	24, Q4	21-17, 21-13	0:37
Trail the series against # 7 Berger/Doppler, Austria 0-2
7/4/03	FIVB	Norway Open	Pool H	Berger/Doppler	8	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	24, Q4	21-19, 21-11	0:42
8/1/02	FIVB	Austria Grand Slam	Pool K	Berger/Doppler	10	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	34	21-14, 15-21, 15-11	1:11
Trail the series against # 8 Dieckmann/Reckermann, Germany 0-1
7/17/02	FIVB	France Grand Slam	Pool M	Dieckmann/Reckermann	12	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	36	21-19, 20-22, 15-11	0:53
Lead the series against # 11 Alvarez/Rossell, Cuba 1-0
7/27/02	FIVB	Portugal Open	Pool F	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	27	Alvarez/Rossell	6, Q3	29-27, 21-19	0:55
Series tied with # 13 Egger/Heyer, Switzerland 1-1
7/26/02	FIVB	Portugal Open	Pool F	Egger/Heyer	22	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	27	17-21, 21-15, 15-7	0:55
7/5/02	FIVB	Norway Open	Pool C	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	30	Egger/Heyer	19, Q2	21-17, 22-20	0:55
Trail the series against # 16 Schacht/Slack, Australia 0-1
7/27/02	FIVB	Portugal Open	Winner 1	Schacht/Slack	21	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	27	21-19, 21-16	0:40
Trail the series against # 27, Q9 Gartmayer/Nowotny, Austria 0-1
6/19/03	FIVB	Switzerland Open	Qualifier 3	Gartmayer/Nowotny	29, Q14	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q3	21-23, 21-15, 17-15	0:58
Trail the series against # 28, Q10 Gscheidle/Vesti, Switzerland 0-2
7/24/03	FIVB	Portugal Open	Qualifier 3	Gscheidle/Vesti	28, Q10	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q7	25-23, 25-27, 15-10	1:11
8/2/02	FIVB	Austria Grand Slam	Pool K	Gscheidle/Vesti	15	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	34	15-21, 21-16, 15-12	0:58
Trail the series against # Q1 Cotrino /Garcia-Thompson, Spain 0-1
7/4/03	FIVB	Norway Open	Pool H	Cotrino /Garcia-Thompson	25, Q3	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	24, Q4	21-13, 19-21, 15-13	0:53
Series tied with # Q15 Ljubicic/Slean, Canada 1-1
7/3/03	FIVB	Norway Open	Qualifier 3	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	24, Q4	Ljubicic/Slean	Q13	23-21, 21-17	0:50
7/12/02	FIVB	Canada Open	Pool F	Ljubicic/Slean	27, Q8	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	22	21-16, 22-20	0:52
Trail the series against # Q17 De Gruijter/Ronnes, Netherlands 0-1
6/25/03	FIVB	Germany Grand Slam	Qualifier 2	De Gruijter/Ronnes	Q28	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q5	21-18, 21-19	0:39
Lead the series against # Q19 Ces/Salvetti, France 1-0
7/9/03	CEV	Greek Open		Kouchnerev/Sayfulin		Ces/Salvetti		22-20, 21-15	0:43
Lead the series against # Q21 Asahi/Nishimura, Japan 1-0
9/5/02	FIVB	Spain Open	Qualifier 2	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q3	Asahi/Nishimura	Q35	21-18, 21-16	0:49
Lead the series against # Q23 Xu/Xu, China 1-0
6/19/03	FIVB	Switzerland Open	Qualifier 2	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q3	Xu/Xu	Q35	21-14, 21-19	0:45
Lead the series against # Q25 Esko/Tuominen, Finland 1-0
7/2/03	FIVB	Norway Open	Qualifier 2	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	24, Q4	Esko/Tuominen	Q29	18-21, 23-21, 15-12	0:36
Lead the series against # Q26 Petreaev/Shapranovich, Israel 1-0
7/24/03	FIVB	Portugal Open	Qualifier 2	Kouchnerev/Sayfulin	Q7	Petreaev/Shapranovich	Q26	21-19, 19-21, 15-12	0:57