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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$292,800 Durban Open
December 11 - 14, 2013

(14) Martins Plavins/Aleksandrs Solovejs, Latvia

Martins Plavins
Latvia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 8, 1985 (40 yrs old)

Home Town:

Riga

Height:

190 cm (6'3")

Weight:

87 kg (191 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

195

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$450,693.30

Aleksandrs Solovejs
Latvia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jan 11, 1991 (34 yrs old)

Home Town:

Riga

Height:

203 cm (6'8")

Weight:

108 kg (238 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB Anapa 2014)

Career Winnings:

US$37,867.13

Awards

Best Defensive Player 2012

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	Money
FIVB	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	6	US$57,500.00

Previous Durban Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	8/21-25/2013	Moscow Grand Slam	Q9	33rd	160	US$0.00

Durban Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 12/12/2013	Pool C	Pawel Pelka / Dawid Popek, Poland (30)	Won 21-12, 21-13	0:32
Thu, 12/12/2013	Pool C	Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Janis Smedins, Latvia (3)	Lost 15-21, 16-21	0:40
Fri, 12/13/2013	Pool C	Jonas Kissling / Mats Kovatsch, Switzerland (19, Q3)	Won 21-14, 27-25	0:39
Fri, 12/13/2013	Winner 1	Leon Colina / Jackson Henriquez, Venezuela (25, Q8)	Won 21-19, 21-19	0:39
Sat, 12/14/2013	Winner 2	Alex Ranghieri / Andrea Tomatis, Italy (5)	Won 21-16, 24-22	0:39
Sat, 12/14/2013	Winner 3	Cheng Chen / Jian Li, China (24, Q7)	Won 21-18, 21-15	0:39
Sat, 12/14/2013	Semi-Finals	Jan Dumek / Premysl Kubala, Czech Republic (16)	Won 21-18, 21-14
Sat, 12/14/2013	Gold Medal	Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Janis Smedins, Latvia (3)	Lost 21-15, 17-21, 10-15	0:51

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	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	$28,500.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$29,000.00
Total	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0	$57,500.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Martins Plavins												Aleksandrs Solovejs
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	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games
8	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	$36,900.00	World Championships
3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	$17,750.00	World Tour Finals
80	1	0	1	2	5	21	22	13	0	$225,750.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	18	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	$14,250.00
83	2	2	2	2	9	25	15	14	0	$156,100.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	11	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	$16,250.00
11	2	1	2	0	2	2	2	0	0	$10,550.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	11	0	0	0	0	4	1	5	1	0	$7,250.00
3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	$1,800.00	Challenger
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$1,000.00	Satellite
											U23 World Championships	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	U21 World Championships
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships
195	7	3	6	6	20	54	43	27	0	$449,850.00	Total	41	1	1	0	1	4	3	6	5	0	$37,750.00

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
2012	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$3,500.00	1	2	33.3 %
2013	FIVB	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$16,000.00	6	3	66.7 %
Total	FIVB	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	$19,500.00	7	5	58.3 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Martins Plavins													Aleksandrs Solovejs
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	$0.00	2002	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2004	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$1,000.00	2005	FIVB
2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$1,450.00	2005	FIVB C&S
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2005	FIVB Age Group WC
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	$3,250.00	2006	FIVB
2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	$1,350.00	2006	FIVB C&S
15	0	0	0	0	2	3	5	2	3	$30,500.00	2007	FIVB
17	0	0	0	0	1	5	2	6	3	$29,100.00	2008	FIVB
5	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	$10,650.00	2009	FIVB
11	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	1	4	$28,750.00	2010	FIVB
10	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	1	0	$39,875.00	2011	FIVB
11	1	0	1	0	0	6	2	1	0	$49,725.00	2012	FIVB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	$1,750.00
9	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	$18,850.00	2013	FIVB	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	$8,750.00
											2013	FIVB Age Group WC	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
90	3	2	1	1	8	23	20	17	15	$214,500.00	Total	Total	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	$10,500.00

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	16	64.0%	4	16.0%	5	20.0%	20-5	80.0%	3	16.7%	2	11.1%	13	72.2%	3-15	16.7%	16-13	55.2%	7-7	50.0%	1	0	24-20	54.5%
2012-2013	6	75.0%	0	0.0%	2	25.0%	6-2	75.0%	0	0.0%	1	33.3%	2	66.7%	0-3	0.0%	6-2	75.0%	0-3	0.0%	1	0	7-5	58.3%
Against the Field	9	75.0%	1	8.3%	2	16.7%	10-2	83.3%	0	0.0%	1	25.0%	3	75.0%	0-4	0.0%	18-6	75.0%	2-6	25.0%	0	0	10-6	62.5%

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	4	6	4	8	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	16
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	7	2	0	0	5	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	15	4
Total	0	0	4	6	11	10	0	0	6	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	24	20

Head to Head Results
Plavins/Solovejs lead the series against the field 6-3 (Lead 5 Series, Trail 1 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 3 Samoilovs/Smedins, Latvia 0-2
12/14/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Gold Medal	Samoilovs/Smedins	3	Plavins/Solovejs	14	15-21, 21-17, 15-10	0:51
12/12/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Pool C	Samoilovs/Smedins	3	Plavins/Solovejs	14	21-15, 21-16	0:40
Series tied with # 5 Ranghieri/Tomatis, Italy 1-1
12/14/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Winner 2	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Ranghieri/Tomatis	5	21-16, 24-22	0:39
8/21/13	FIVB	Moscow Grand Slam	Qualifier 2	Ranghieri/Tomatis	27, Q8	Plavins/Solovejs	Q9	21-17, 18-21, 15-10	0:46
Lead the series against # 16 Dumek/Kubala, Czech Republic 1-0
12/14/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Semi-Finals	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Dumek/Kubala	16	21-18, 21-14
Lead the series against # 19, Q3 Kissling/Kovatsch, Switzerland 1-0
12/13/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Pool C	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Kissling/Kovatsch	19, Q3	21-14, 27-25	0:39
Lead the series against # 24, Q7 Chen/Li, China 1-0
12/14/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Winner 3	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Chen/Li	24, Q7	21-18, 21-15	0:39
Lead the series against # 25, Q8 Colina/Henriquez, Venezuela 1-0
12/13/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Winner 1	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Colina/Henriquez	25, Q8	21-19, 21-19	0:39
Lead the series against # 30 Pelka/Popek, Poland 1-0
12/12/13	FIVB	Durban Open	Pool C	Plavins/Solovejs	14	Pelka/Popek	30	21-12, 21-13	0:32