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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$175,000 Bahrain Open 2008
October 27 - November 1, 2008

(2) Andy Ces/Kevin Ces, France

Andy Cès
France

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 3, 1982 (43 yrs old)

Home Town:

Savigny sur orge

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

91 kg (200 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (FIVB Manama 2008)

Career Winnings:

US$141,675.00

Kevin Cès
France

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 21, 1980 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Savigny-sur-Orge

Height:

194 cm (6'4")

Weight:

91 kg (200 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

140

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB C&S Porticcio 2004)

Career FIVB WT Best:

2nd (Manama 2008)

Career Winnings:

US$172,437.50

Awards

Most Improved Player 2008

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	41	Money
FIVB	76	0	1	0	2	3	2	6	7	17	17	13	8	US$264,250.00

Previous Manama Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2007	Kevin Ces - 25th	Andy Ces - 25th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	10/6-11/2008	Dubai Open	5	4th	420	US$10,500.00
FIVB	9/16-21/2008	Guarajà Open	8	9th	240	US$5,500.00
FIVB	9/2-7/2008	Mallorca Open	20	5th	360	US$8,500.00
FIVB	8/26-31/2008	Kristiansand Open	20	9th	240	US$5,500.00
FIVB	7/22-27/2008	Gstaad Grand Slam	20	17th	160	US$5,100.00
FIVB	7/15-20/2008	Marseille Open	21	9th	240	US$5,500.00
FIVB	7/1-6/2008	Moscow Grand Slam	Q11	33rd	40	US$0.00
FIVB	6/24-29/2008	Stavanger Grand Slam	27, Q12	25th	80	US$3,500.00
FIVB	6/17-22/2008	Paris Grand Slam	28	25th	80	US$3,500.00
FIVB	6/3-8/2008	Stare Jablonki Open	21, Q5	25th	60	US$1,800.00
FIVB	5/27-6/1/2008	Barcelona Open	26, Q4	7th	300	US$7,000.00
FIVB	5/13-18/2008	Italian Open	30, Q12	25th	60	US$1,800.00
FIVB	5/6-11/2008	Prague Open	30, Q8	17th	120	US$2,500.00
FIVB	4/28-5/3/2008	China Shanghai Open	29, Q5	25th	60	US$1,800.00
FIVB	3/25-30/2008	Adelaide Australia Open	31, Q9	17th	120	US$2,500.00

Manama Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Wed, 10/29/2008	Winner 1	Osama Omran / Sayed Ali Sayed Khalaf, Bahrain (31)	Won 21-12, 21-15	0:40
Wed, 10/29/2008	Winner 2	Martin Reader / Ray Sewell, Canada (15, Q4)	Won 21-15, 21-11	0:36
Thu, 10/30/2008	Winner 3	Grzegorz Fijalek / Mariusz Prudel, Poland (10)	Won 21-19, 21-14	0:48
Thu, 10/30/2008	Winner 4	Alison Cerutti / Pedro Cunha, Brazil (3)	Lost 13-21, 10-21	0:39
Fri, 10/31/2008	Contender 6	Michal Kadziola / Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland (8)	Won 21-13, 21-18	0:38
Fri, 10/31/2008	Semi-Finals	Sebastian Dollinger / Stefan Windscheif, Germany (21, Q5)	Won 21-15, 17-21, 15-8	0:58
Sat, 11/1/2008	Gold Medal	Alison Cerutti / Pedro Cunha, Brazil (3)	Lost 20-22, 19-21	0:44

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$)
World Championships	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$15,800.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	29	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	6	0	$68,800.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	45	0	1	0	2	2	2	5	7	10	11	0	$179,650.00
Total	76	0	1	0	2	3	2	6	7	17	17	0	$264,250.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Andy Ces												Kevin Ces
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$7,900.00	World Championships	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$10,712.50
36	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	8	0	$40,850.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	44	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	10	0	$43,300.00
50	0	1	0	2	4	13	10	12	0	$92,575.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	84	0	1	0	2	5	14	16	15	0	$112,325.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$350.00	Challenger	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,000.00
											Satellite	6	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	$4,100.00
89	0	1	0	2	5	15	19	20	0	$141,675.00	Total	140	1	4	1	2	7	16	24	25	0	$172,437.50

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
2007	FIVB	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	6	$19,600.00	15	24	38.5 %
2008	FIVB	16	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	0	3	5	1	$84,500.00	44	34	56.4 %
Total	FIVB	30	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	0	4	12	7	$104,100.00	59	58	50.4 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Andy Ces													Kevin Ces
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
											1997	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
											1998	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
											1999	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
											2000	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
											2001	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	$0.00
											2002	FIVB	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	$0.00
											2003	FIVB	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	$2,437.50
											2003	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$1,000.00
											2004	FIVB	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	$5,125.00
											2004	FIVB C&S	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$1,100.00
											2005	FIVB	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	7	$8,500.00
											2005	FIVB C&S	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$4,000.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	$0.00	2006	FIVB	12	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	1	4	$18,150.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$350.00	2006	FIVB C&S
14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	6	$9,800.00	2007	FIVB	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	6	$9,800.00
16	0	1	0	1	2	3	3	5	1	$42,250.00	2008	FIVB	16	0	1	0	1	2	3	3	5	1	$42,250.00
35	0	1	0	1	2	4	4	12	11	$52,400.00	Total	Total	94	1	4	1	1	4	6	11	20	46	$92,362.50

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	95	69.9%	18	13.2%	23	16.9%	113-23	83.1%	15	11.2%	25	18.7%	94	70.1%	15-119	11.2%	95-94	50.3%	33-48	40.7%	3	0	131-142	48.0%
2007-2008	47	75.8%	6	9.7%	9	14.5%	53-9	85.5%	7	12.1%	14	24.1%	37	63.8%	7-51	12.1%	47-37	56.0%	13-23	36.1%	2	0	62-60	50.8%
Against the Field	14	87.5%	2	12.5%	0	0.0%	16-0	100.0%	0	0.0%	1	8.3%	11	91.7%	0-12	0.0%	28-20	58.3%	4-2	66.7%	1	0	17-11	60.7%

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
World Championships	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	18	15	10	29	0	0	2	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	52
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	33	5	0	0	0	0	31	39	1	2	0	2	0	1	97	86
Total	0	0	51	20	13	32	0	0	34	48	1	2	0	2	0	1	131	142

Head to Head Results
Ces/Ces lead the series against the field 12-2 (Lead 9 Series, Trail 1 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 3 Cerutti/Cunha, Brazil 0-2
11/1/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Gold Medal	Cerutti/Cunha	3	Ces/Ces	2	22-20, 21-19	0:44
10/30/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Winner 4	Cerutti/Cunha	3	Ces/Ces	2	21-13, 21-10	0:39
Lead the series against # 4 Dyachenko/Kulinich, Kazakhstan 1-0
8/29/08	FIVB	Kristiansand Open	Contender 3	Ces/Ces	20	Dyachenko/Kulinich	11	22-20, 26-24	0:52
Lead the series against # 5 Gabathuler/Wenger, Switzerland 2-0
10/8/08	FIVB	Dubai Open	Winner 2	Ces/Ces	5	Gabathuler/Wenger	12	21-18, 22-20	0:49
9/5/08	FIVB	Mallorca Open	Contender 2	Ces/Ces	20	Gabathuler/Wenger	14	21-17, 15-21, 15-13	0:56
Lead the series against # 7 Baracetti/Salema, Argentina 2-0
8/29/08	FIVB	Kristiansand Open	Contender 2	Ces/Ces	20	Baracetti/Salema	14	21-15, 21-15	0:41
5/14/08	FIVB	Italian Open	Qualifier 3	Ces/Ces	30, Q12	Baracetti/Salema	Q5	21-19, 21-18	0:49
Lead the series against # 8 Kadziola/Szalankiewicz, Poland 2-0
10/31/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Contender 6	Ces/Ces	2	Kadziola/Szalankiewicz	8	21-13, 21-18	0:38
5/30/08	FIVB	Barcelona Open	Contender 4	Ces/Ces	26, Q4	Kadziola/Szalankiewicz	22	By Forfeit
Lead the series against # 10 Fijalek/Prudel, Poland 1-0
10/30/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Winner 3	Ces/Ces	2	Fijalek/Prudel	10	21-19, 21-14	0:48
Lead the series against # 15, Q4 Reader/Sewell, Canada 1-0
10/29/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Winner 2	Ces/Ces	2	Reader/Sewell	15, Q4	21-15, 21-11	0:36
Lead the series against # 17, Q1 Hupfer/Schroffenegger, Austria 1-0
9/5/07	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Open	Qualifier 3	Ces/Ces	27, Q3	Hupfer/Schroffenegger	Q19	21-17, 21-13	0:39
Lead the series against # 21, Q5 Dollinger/Windscheif, Germany 1-0
10/31/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Semi-Finals	Ces/Ces	2	Dollinger/Windscheif	21, Q5	21-15, 17-21, 15-8	0:58
Lead the series against # 31 Omran/Sayed Khalaf, Bahrain 1-0
10/29/08	FIVB	Manama Open	Winner 1	Ces/Ces	2	Omran/Sayed Khalaf	31	21-12, 21-15	0:40