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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$150,000 Paraná Open
October 29 - November 2, 2014

(1) Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada

Ben Saxton
Canada

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Nov 21, 1988 (37 yrs old)

Home Town:

Calgary

Height:

200 cm (6'7")

Weight:

92 kg (202 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

129

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB Sydney 2018)

Career Winnings:

US$330,187.50

Chaim Schalk
Canada

/ United States

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Apr 23, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Red Deer, Alberta

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

88 kg (194 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

117

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB Rubavu 2021)

Career Winnings:

US$354,537.50

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	Money
FIVB	55	0	1	4	1	7	1	18	0	11	9	3	US$505,825.00

Previous Paraná Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	9/23-28/2014	São Paulo Grand Slam	15	5th	480	US$17,000.00
FIVB	8/20-24/2014	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	19	9th	360	US$11,000.00
FIVB	7/30-8/3/2014	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	25	17th	240	US$7,000.00
FIVB	7/22-27/2014	ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball	19	17th	240	US$9,000.00
FIVB	7/15-20/2014	The Hague Grand Slam	17	17th	240	US$9,000.00
FIVB	7/9-13/2014	Gstaad Grand Slam	21	9th	360	US$11,000.00
FIVB	6/25-29/2014	Stavanger Grand Slam	24	9th	360	US$11,000.00
FIVB	6/18-22/2014	Berlin Grand Slam	15	25th	160	US$4,000.00
FIVB	6/11-15/2014	Moscow Grand Slam	16	25th	160	US$4,000.00
FIVB	4/29-5/3/2014	Shanghai Grand Slam	15	9th	360	US$11,000.00

Paraná Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 10/30/2014	Pool A	Tomasz Gortych / Szymon Tralka, Poland (32, Q13)	Won 21-11, 21-13	0:28
Thu, 10/30/2014	Pool A	Maverick Hatch / Garrett May, Canada (16, Q1)	Won 21-12, 21-12	0:32
Fri, 10/31/2014	Pool A	Florian Schnetzer / Jorg Wutzl, Austria (17)	Won 21-15, 21-16	0:33
Sat, 11/1/2014	Winner 2	Trevor Crabb / Adam Roberts, United States (26, Q8)	Won 21-12, 21-14	0:32
Sat, 11/1/2014	Winner 3	Nicolas Capogrosso / Ian Mehamed, Argentina (10)	Won 21-16, 21-17	0:32
Sun, 11/2/2014	Semi-Finals	Esteban Grimalt / Marco Grimalt, Chile (4)	Lost 26-24, 28-30, 9-15	0:58
Sun, 11/2/2014	Bronze Medal	Sebastian Fuchs / Thomas Kaczmarek, Germany (5)	Won 21-15, 21-10	0:33

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	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	$43,000.00
World Tour Finals	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$41,500.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	37	0	1	3	0	3	0	14	0	9	5	0	$399,150.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	11	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	4	0	$22,175.00
Total	55	0	1	4	1	7	1	18	0	11	9	0	$505,825.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Ben Saxton												Chaim Schalk
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00
5	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	$28,500.00	World Championships	6	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	$46,200.00
4	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	$20,750.00	World Tour Finals	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	$20,750.00
54	0	1	3	0	3	14	14	10	0	$222,675.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	56	0	1	4	0	5	20	18	5	0	$236,825.00
52	0	0	1	0	4	7	12	10	0	$49,362.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	49	0	0	1	1	11	8	7	6	0	$47,962.50
3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$6,750.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,000.00
3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	$925.00	Challenger	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$800.00
5	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	$1,225.00	Satellite
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships
129	1	2	4	1	14	25	33	20	0	$330,187.50	Total	117	1	1	5	3	22	29	26	11	1	$354,537.50

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
2013	FIVB	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	2	1	3	$50,150.00	23	23	50.0 %
2014	FIVB	11	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	3	2	0	$100,000.00	26	23	53.1 %
Total	FIVB	22	0	0	1	0	2	0	8	0	5	3	3	$150,150.00	49	46	51.6 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Ben Saxton													Chaim Schalk
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$175.00	2005	FIVB C&S
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2005	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2006	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2007	FIVB
3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	$550.00	2007	FIVB C&S
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	$0.00	2008	FIVB
2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$975.00	2008	FIVB C&S
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	$1,000.00	2009	FIVB
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	$0.00	2010	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$1,000.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$450.00	2010	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$800.00
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	$11,950.00	2011	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$1,000.00
9	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	$9,175.00	2012	FIVB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00
11	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	1	3	$25,075.00	2013	FIVB	11	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	1	3	$25,075.00
11	0	0	1	0	1	4	3	2	0	$50,000.00	2014	FIVB	11	0	0	1	0	1	4	3	2	0	$50,000.00
64	0	0	1	0	5	12	12	10	24	$99,350.00	Total	Total	35	0	0	1	0	3	8	5	5	13	$77,875.00

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	88	66.2%	20	15.0%	25	18.8%	108-25	81.2%	22	20.4%	19	17.6%	67	62.0%	22-86	20.4%	88-67	56.8%	42-44	48.8%	3	0	133-111	54.5%
2013-2014	30	58.8%	8	15.7%	13	25.5%	38-13	74.5%	10	23.3%	7	16.3%	26	60.5%	10-33	23.3%	30-26	53.6%	18-20	47.4%	1	0	49-46	51.6%
Against the Field	14	82.4%	1	5.9%	2	11.8%	15-2	88.2%	2	28.6%	1	14.3%	4	57.1%	2-5	28.6%	28-8	77.8%	6-6	50.0%	0	0	17-7	70.8%

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	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
World Championships	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	6
World Tour Finals	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	5	9
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	6	2	64	41	0	0	20	26	1	3	3	0	0	1	94	73
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	1	1	15	13	0	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	22	20
Total	0	0	7	3	88	65	1	0	32	36	1	5	4	1	0	1	133	111

Head to Head Results
Saxton/Schalk lead the series against the field 9-3 (Lead 8 Series, Trail 2 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 2 Binstock/Schachter, Canada 0-1
9/26/14	FIVB	São Paulo Grand Slam	Winner 3	Binstock/Schachter	23	Saxton/Schalk	15	21-18, 25-23	0:44
Trail the series against # 4 Grimalt/Grimalt, Chile 0-2
11/2/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Semi-Finals	Grimalt/Grimalt	4	Saxton/Schalk	1	24-26, 30-28, 15-9	0:58
7/18/14	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Winner 1	Grimalt/Grimalt	28, Q11	Saxton/Schalk	17	21-17, 21-17	0:35
Lead the series against # 5 Fuchs/Kaczmarek, Germany 2-0
11/2/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Bronze Medal	Saxton/Schalk	1	Fuchs/Kaczmarek	5	21-15, 21-10	0:33
7/3/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool I	Saxton/Schalk	40	Fuchs/Kaczmarek	16	21-18, 21-10	0:34
Lead the series against # 8 O'Gorman/Pedlow, Canada 1-0
7/23/13	FIVB	Long Beach Grand Slam	Pool E	Saxton/Schalk	12	O'Gorman/Pedlow	28, Q5	21-14, 25-23	0:37
Lead the series against # 10 Capogrosso/Mehamed, Argentina 1-0
11/1/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Winner 3	Saxton/Schalk	1	Capogrosso/Mehamed	10	21-16, 21-17	0:32
Lead the series against # 11 Colina/Henriquez, Venezuela 1-0
6/18/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Qualifier 2	Saxton/Schalk	27, Q9	Colina/Henriquez	Q8	15-21, 21-12, 15-11	0:44
Lead the series against # 16, Q1 Hatch/May, Canada 1-0
10/30/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Pool A	Saxton/Schalk	1	Hatch/May	16, Q1	21-12, 21-12	0:32
Lead the series against # 17 Schnetzer/Wutzl, Austria 1-0
10/31/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Pool A	Saxton/Schalk	1	Schnetzer/Wutzl	17	21-15, 21-16	0:33
Lead the series against # 26, Q8 Crabb/Roberts, United States 1-0
11/1/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Winner 2	Saxton/Schalk	1	Crabb/Roberts	26, Q8	21-12, 21-14	0:32
Lead the series against # 32, Q13 Gortych/Tralka, Poland 1-0
10/30/14	FIVB	Paraná Open	Pool A	Saxton/Schalk	1	Gortych/Tralka	32, Q13	21-11, 21-13	0:28