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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$1,000,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships
June 13 - 19, 2011

(34) Karl Jaani/Rivo Vesik, Estonia

Karl Jaani
Estonia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Dec 27, 1985 (38 yrs old)

Home Town:

Tartu

Height:

190 cm (6'3")

Weight:

82 kg (180 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

9th (FIVB Myslowice 2010)

Career Winnings:

US$32,325.00

Rivo Vesik
Estonia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 15, 1980 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Parnu

Height:

198 cm (6'6")

Weight:

90 kg (198 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

117

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB Zagreb 2007)

Career Winnings:

US$271,325.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	41	57	Money
FIVB	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	7	5	5	4	1	US$63,950.00

Previous Rome Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2010	Rivo Vesik - 25th	Karl Jaani - 25th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/6-11/2011	Beijing Grand Slam	26, Q10	17th	160	US$5,100.00
FIVB	5/17-22/2011	Prague Open	Q3	33rd	30	US$0.00
FIVB	5/2-7/2011	Shanghai Open	23, Q5	13th	180	US$4,250.00
FIVB	4/18-23/2011	Brasilia Open	Q2	41st	18	US$0.00
FIVB	8/24-29/2010	The Hague Open	19	25th	60	US$2,000.00
FIVB	8/17-22/2010	Aland Open	17	13th	180	US$4,250.00
FIVB	8/10-15/2010	Kristiansand Open	12	17th	120	US$2,800.00
FIVB	8/3-8/2010	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	26, Q6	17th	160	US$5,100.00
FIVB	7/27-8/1/2010	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	Q6	41st	24	US$0.00
FIVB	7/20-25/2010	Marseille Open	13	13th	180	US$4,250.00
FIVB	6/29-7/4/2010	Stavanger Grand Slam	23	17th	160	US$5,100.00
FIVB	6/15-21/2010	Prague Open	19	17th	120	US$2,800.00

Rome World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Mon, 6/13/2011

Pool J

Jake Gibb / Sean Rosenthal, United States (10)

Lost 21-17, 22-24, 15-17

0:52

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Karl Jaani	Total	50	25	7	0.360	0	13	0	1
	1	19	10	2	0.421	0	5	0	0
	2	20	9	5	0.200	0	4	0	0
	3	11	6	0	0.545	0	4	0	1
Rivo Vesik	Total	34	18	7	0.324	0	11	3	5
	1	8	4	2	0.250	0	5	0	1
	2	11	7	2	0.455	0	2	3	3
	3	15	7	3	0.267	0	4	0	1

Wed, 6/15/2011

Pool J

Martins Plavins / Janis Smedins, Latvia (15)

Lost 16-21, 15-21

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Karl Jaani	Total	34	19	8	0.324	0	7	0	2
	1	14	8	4	0.286	0	2	0	0
	2	20	11	4	0.350	0	5	0	2
Rivo Vesik	Total	10	3	2	0.100	0	3	2	1
	1	4	1	1	0.000	0	1	1	1
	2	6	2	1	0.167	0	2	1	0

Thu, 6/16/2011

Pool J

Yury Bogatov / Serguei Prokopiev, Russia (39)

Won 21-17, 21-12

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Karl Jaani	Total	27	17	2	0.556	0	6	0	3
	1	17	11	0	0.647	0	2	0	2
	2	10	6	2	0.400	0	4	0	1
Rivo Vesik	Total	15	8	0	0.533	4	4	2	1
	1	5	3	0	0.600	1	1	1	0
	2	10	5	0	0.500	3	3	1	1

Fri, 6/17/2011

Winner 1

Julius Brink / Jonas Reckermann, Germany (4)

Lost 17-21, 19-21

0:42

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Karl Jaani	Total	37	18	8	0.270	0	10	0	0
	1	12	6	3	0.250	0	3	0	0
	2	25	12	5	0.280	0	7	0	0
Rivo Vesik	Total	11	6	1	0.455	0	3	1	1
	1	7	2	1	0.143	0	1	0	0
	2	4	4	0	1.000	0	2	1	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Karl Jaani	148	79	25	0.365	0	36	0	6
Rivo Vesik	70	35	10	0.357	4	21	8	8
Total	218	114	35	0.362	4	57	8	14
Opponents	211	113	24	0.422	17	58	9	18

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	World Championships	Rio de Janeiro	Did not play	Kristjan Kais - 37th
2005	World Championships	Berlin	Did not play	Kristjan Kais - 5th
2007	World Championships	Gstaad	Did not play	Kristjan Kais - 5th
2009	World Championships	Stavanger	Did not play	Kristjan Kais - 9th

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/13-19/2011	Rome World Championships	34	17th	200	US$7,000.00

Head to Head Results
Jaani/Vesik trail the series against the field 11-24 (Lead 9 Series, Trail 15 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Dalhausser/Rogers, United States 0-1
8/19/10	FIVB	Aland Open	Winner 2	Dalhausser/Rogers	1	Jaani/Vesik	17	21-18, 21-18	0:43
Trail the series against # 2 Cerutti/Rego, Brazil 0-1
7/3/10	FIVB	Stavanger Grand Slam	Winner 1	Cerutti/Rego	2	Jaani/Vesik	23	21-12, 21-17	0:34
Trail the series against # 4 Brink/Reckermann, Germany 0-1
6/17/11	FIVB	Rome World Championships	Winner 1	Brink/Reckermann	4	Jaani/Vesik	34	21-17, 21-19	0:42
Trail the series against # 5 Klemperer/Koreng, Germany 0-2
5/20/10	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool P	Klemperer/Koreng	7	Jaani/Vesik	23	33-31, 21-19	0:57
5/5/10	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 1	Klemperer/Koreng	6	Jaani/Vesik	27, Q3	14-21, 21-19, 15-9	0:48
Trail the series against # 6 Wu/Xu, China 0-1
5/21/10	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool P	Wu/Xu	26	Jaani/Vesik	23	21-23, 21-18, 15-12	0:53
Lead the series against # 7 Fuerbringer/Lucena, United States 1-0
6/8/11	FIVB	Beijing Grand Slam	Pool G	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q10	Fuerbringer/Lucena	7	23-21, 18-21, 15-12	1:01
Trail the series against # 8 Insfran/Schmidt, Brazil 0-4
6/10/11	FIVB	Beijing Grand Slam	Winner 1	Insfran/Schmidt	8	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q10	21-16, 18-21, 15-8	0:47
8/13/10	FIVB	Kristiansand Open	Contender 2	Insfran/Schmidt	11, Q1	Jaani/Vesik	12	23-21, 21-16	0:43
7/1/10	FIVB	Stavanger Grand Slam	Pool P	Insfran/Schmidt	7	Jaani/Vesik	23	18-21, 21-13, 15-12	0:52
5/27/10	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Winner 1	Insfran/Schmidt	8	Jaani/Vesik	25	21-16, 21-17	0:40
Trail the series against # 9 Gavira/Herrera, Spain 0-2
6/9/11	FIVB	Beijing Grand Slam	Pool G	Gavira/Herrera	10	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q10	21-16, 21-19	0:35
6/18/10	FIVB	Prague Open	Contender 2	Gavira/Herrera	4	Jaani/Vesik	19	22-20, 16-21, 15-13	0:51
Trail the series against # 10 Gibb/Rosenthal, United States 0-2
6/13/11	FIVB	Rome World Championships	Pool J	Gibb/Rosenthal	10	Jaani/Vesik	34	17-21, 24-22, 17-15	0:52
8/5/10	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Pool P	Gibb/Rosenthal	7, Q3	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q6	22-20, 21-16	0:39
Trail the series against # 11 Benes/Kubala, Czech Republic 0-2
8/6/10	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Pool P	Benes/Kubala	23	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q6	26-24, 21-13	0:47
5/28/10	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Contender 4	Benes/Kubala	28	Jaani/Vesik	25	17-21, 21-17, 19-17	0:56
Lead the series against # 12 Ferramenta/Solberg, Brazil 1-0
8/19/10	FIVB	Aland Open	Winner 1	Jaani/Vesik	17	Ferramenta/Solberg	16	14-21, 22-20, 15-13	0:53
Trail the series against # 15 Plavins/Smedins, Latvia 0-2
6/15/11	FIVB	Rome World Championships	Pool J	Plavins/Smedins	15	Jaani/Vesik	34	21-16, 21-15	0:38
7/1/10	FIVB	Stavanger Grand Slam	Pool P	Plavins/Smedins	26, Q16	Jaani/Vesik	23	21-12, 21-18	0:34
Trail the series against # 19 Skarlund/Spinnangr, Norway 0-1
7/22/10	FIVB	Marseille Open	Winner 1	Skarlund/Spinnangr	20	Jaani/Vesik	13	21-12, 21-10	0:32
Trail the series against # 21 Bellaguarda/Heuscher, Switzerland 0-1
5/5/11	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 3	Bellaguarda/Heuscher	16	Jaani/Vesik	23, Q5	21-16, 23-21	0:37
Lead the series against # 23 Hoyer/Soderberg, Denmark 1-0
8/4/10	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Qualifier 2	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q6	Hoyer/Soderberg	29, Q11	24-22, 21-14	0:43
Trail the series against # 24 Jennings/Wong, United States 0-1
8/20/10	FIVB	Aland Open	Contender 3	Jennings/Wong	24, Q1	Jaani/Vesik	17	21-11, 21-17	0:33
Trail the series against # 25 Ces/Ces, France 0-1
8/26/10	FIVB	The Hague Open	Winner 1	Ces/Ces	14	Jaani/Vesik	19	21-16, 21-11	0:33
Lead the series against # 26 Lochhead/Pitman, New Zealand 1-0
8/20/10	FIVB	Aland Open	Contender 2	Jaani/Vesik	17	Lochhead/Pitman	15	21-17, 21-19	0:44
Lead the series against # 27 Gabathuler/Schnider, Switzerland 1-0
5/5/11	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 2	Jaani/Vesik	23, Q5	Gabathuler/Schnider	24, Q6	26-28, 21-16, 15-10	0:55
Series tied with # 29 Chevallier/Heyer, Switzerland 1-1
6/9/11	FIVB	Beijing Grand Slam	Pool G	Chevallier/Heyer	23	Jaani/Vesik	26, Q10	21-13, 21-12	0:30
5/4/11	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 1	Jaani/Vesik	23, Q5	Chevallier/Heyer	26	21-14, 21-10	0:34
Trail the series against # 31 "Geor" Gomes/Terceiro, Georgia 0-1
5/6/10	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 2	"Geor" Gomes/Terceiro	21	Jaani/Vesik	27, Q3	21-13, 24-22	0:43
Lead the series against # 35 Brinkborg/Gunnarsson, Sweden 1-0
8/12/10	FIVB	Kristiansand Open	Winner 1	Jaani/Vesik	12	Brinkborg/Gunnarsson	21, Q5	21-16, 18-21, 16-14	0:55
Lead the series against # 36 Dollinger/Windscheif, Germany 2-0
5/28/10	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Contender 2	Jaani/Vesik	25	Dollinger/Windscheif	23	20-22, 21-14, 15-11	0:56
5/5/10	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Contender 1	Jaani/Vesik	27, Q3	Dollinger/Windscheif	22, Q6	24-22, 19-21, 15-12	0:51
Lead the series against # 39 Bogatov/Prokopiev, Russia 1-0
6/16/11	FIVB	Rome World Championships	Pool J	Jaani/Vesik	34	Bogatov/Prokopiev	39	21-17, 21-12	0:34
Lead the series against # 45 Kadziola/Szalankiewicz, Poland 1-0
7/22/10	FIVB	Marseille Open	Contender 1	Jaani/Vesik	13	Kadziola/Szalankiewicz	29, Q4	22-20, 21-19	0:39