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June 25 - July 4, 2009

(2) Maria Antonelli/Talita Antunes, Brazil

Maria Elisa Mendes Ticon Antonelli
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Feb 25, 1984 (40 yrs old)

Home Town:

Resende

Height:

176 cm (5'9")

Weight:

69 kg (152 lb)

Seasons:

17

Tournaments:

162

Career Wins:

14

Career FIVB WT Wins:

12

Career Winnings:

US$1,035,250.00

Talita Da Rocha Antunes
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Aug 29, 1982 (42 yrs old)

Home Town:

Aquidauana

Height:

181 cm (5'11")

Weight:

65 kg (143 lb)

Seasons:

21

Tournaments:

211

Career Wins:

36

Career Winnings:

US$1,654,975.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	52	8	6	11	8	10	0	6	1	2	0	US$915,050.00

Previous Stavanger Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2005	Did not play	Renata Ribeiro - Country Quota
2006	Did not play	Renata Ribeiro - 5th
2007	Did not play	Renata Ribeiro - 17th
2008	Vanilda Leao - 9th	Renata Ribeiro - 5th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/27-31/2009	Seoul Open	4	1st	600	US$30,000.00
FIVB	5/19-24/2009	Japan Open	5	2nd	540	US$21,000.00
FIVB	4/28-5/2/2009	Shanghai Open	7	1st	600	US$30,000.00
FIVB	4/20-25/2009	Brasilia Open	7	13th	180	US$4,250.00

Stavanger World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 6/27/2009

Pool B

Maria Prokopeva / Evgenia Ukolova, Russia (47)

Won 23-25, 21-18, 15-10

0:59

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	35	18	9	0.257	0	9	3	5
	1	14	7	5	0.143	0	4	0	1
	2	13	6	2	0.308	0	4	2	3
	3	8	5	2	0.375	0	1	1	1
Talita Antunes	Total	29	19	4	0.517	2	9	0	2
	1	12	8	1	0.583	1	2	0	1
	2	8	5	2	0.375	1	3	0	1
	3	9	6	1	0.556	0	4	0	0

Mon, 6/29/2009

Pool B

Danielle Remmers / Michelle Stiekema, Netherlands (26)

Won 18-21, 21-17, 20-18

1:09

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	60	32	8	0.400	0	22	2	3
	1	19	11	0	0.579	0	5	0	2
	2	20	10	5	0.250	0	9	1	0
	3	21	11	3	0.381	0	8	1	1
Talita Antunes	Total	24	15	2	0.542	0	9	1	4
	1	10	5	1	0.400	0	5	0	2
	2	6	5	0	0.833	0	2	0	2
	3	8	5	1	0.500	0	2	1	0

Wed, 7/1/2009

Pool B

Chen Xue / Ying Zhang, China (23)

Won 21-14, 21-19

0:42

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	26	12	8	0.154	0	9	0	4
	1	9	4	1	0.333	0	4	0	2
	2	17	8	7	0.059	0	5	0	2
Talita Antunes	Total	35	19	2	0.486	0	17	1	1
	1	21	12	1	0.524	0	11	1	0
	2	14	7	1	0.429	0	6	0	1

Thu, 7/2/2009

Winner 1

Merel Mooren / Marloes Wesselink, Netherlands (41)

Won 21-12, 21-13

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	29	15	4	0.379	0	12	5	4
	1	13	7	2	0.385	0	5	2	2
	2	16	8	2	0.375	0	7	3	2
Talita Antunes	Total	11	10	0	0.909	1	4	1	2
	1	7	6	0	0.857	0	2	0	1
	2	4	4	0	1.000	1	2	1	1

Fri, 7/3/2009

Winner 2

Liesbeth Mouha / Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgium (17)

Won 21-15, 21-15

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	21	13	4	0.429	0	11	0	3
	1	14	10	3	0.500	0	7	0	3
	2	7	3	1	0.286	0	4	0	0
Talita Antunes	Total	21	14	3	0.524	2	7	2	3
	1	7	5	0	0.714	0	2	0	1
	2	14	9	3	0.429	2	5	2	2

Fri, 7/3/2009

Winner 3

Doris Schwaiger / Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria (12)

Won 21-17, 21-16

0:42

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	31	16	4	0.387	0	7	2	3
	1	16	9	2	0.438	0	3	1	2
	2	15	7	2	0.333	0	4	1	1
Talita Antunes	Total	15	7	3	0.267	1	8	2	1
	1	10	4	1	0.300	0	6	0	1
	2	5	3	2	0.200	1	2	2	0

Sat, 7/4/2009

Semi-Finals

Juliana Felisberta / Larissa Maestrini, Brazil (3)

Lost 17-21, 21-18, 13-15

0:59

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	33	18	6	0.364	1	11	0	5
	1	14	5	2	0.214	0	2	0	1
	2	13	9	2	0.538	0	5	0	2
	3	6	4	2	0.333	1	4	0	2
Talita Antunes	Total	27	12	4	0.296	5	3	2	2
	1	12	7	2	0.417	2	3	1	1
	2	7	3	0	0.429	3	0	0	1
	3	8	2	2	0.000	0	0	1	0

Sat, 7/4/2009

Bronze Medal

Shelda Bede / Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil (5)

Won 21-13, 21-16

0:39

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	Total	25	15	2	0.520	0	9	1	1
	1	12	6	0	0.500	0	7	0	0
	2	13	9	2	0.538	0	2	1	1
Talita Antunes	Total	15	13	1	0.800	4	3	1	0
	1	9	8	1	0.778	2	2	0	0
	2	6	5	0	0.833	2	1	1	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Maria Antonelli	260	139	45	0.362	1	90	13	28
Talita Antunes	177	109	19	0.508	15	60	10	15
Total	437	248	64	0.421	16	150	23	43
Opponents	419	190	57	0.317	10	99	11	42

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2007	World Championships	Gstaad	Did not play	Renata Ribeiro - 9th
2011	World Championships	Rome	Talita Antunes - 5th	Maria Antonelli - 5th
2013	World Championships	Stare Jablonki	Agatha Bednarczuk - 17th	Taiana Lima - 17th
2015	World Championships	The Hague	Juliana Felisberta - 3rd	Larissa Maestrini - 9th
2017	World Championships	Vienna	Carol Salgado - 5th	Larissa Maestrini - 3rd
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	Carol Salgado - 17th	Did not play
2022	World Championships	Rome	Did not play	Rebecca Cavalcanti - 9th

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/25-7/4/2009	Stavanger World Championships	2	3rd	800	US$35,000.00
FIVB	6/13-19/2011	Rome World Championships	2	5th	600	US$18,000.00

Head to Head Results
Antonelli/Antunes lead the series against the field 21-5 (Lead 16 Series, Trail 3 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 1 Kessy/Ross, United States 2-0
5/31/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Gold Medal	Antonelli/Antunes	4	Kessy/Ross	1	22-20, 21-16	0:45
5/30/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Winner 4	Antonelli/Antunes	4	Kessy/Ross	1	22-20, 18-21, 15-13	1:02
Trail the series against # 3 Felisberta/Maestrini, Brazil 0-3
7/4/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Semi-Finals	Felisberta/Maestrini	3	Antonelli/Antunes	2	21-17, 18-21, 15-13	0:59
5/24/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Gold Medal	Felisberta/Maestrini	1	Antonelli/Antunes	5	26-24, 19-21, 18-16	1:05
5/22/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 4	Felisberta/Maestrini	1	Antonelli/Antunes	5	21-16, 15-21, 15-10	0:54
Lead the series against # 5 Bede/Connelly, Brazil 1-0
7/4/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Bronze Medal	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Bede/Connelly	5	21-13, 21-16	0:39
Lead the series against # 6 Akers/Turner, United States 1-0
5/24/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Semi-Finals	Antonelli/Antunes	5	Akers/Turner	26	21-15, 21-11	0:34
Lead the series against # 8 Salgado/Salgado, Brazil 3-0
5/23/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Contender 6	Antonelli/Antunes	5	Salgado/Salgado	2	22-20, 23-25, 15-12	1:07
5/2/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Semi-Finals	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Salgado/Salgado	2	21-17, 19-21, 15-9	1:08
4/30/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 3	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Salgado/Salgado	2	21-19, 21-18	0:36
Lead the series against # 9 Hakedal/Torlen, Norway 1-0
4/23/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 2	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Hakedal/Torlen	8	21-19, 17-21, 15-8	0:52
Lead the series against # 10 Ludwig/Niedrig, Germany 1-0
5/1/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 4	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Ludwig/Niedrig	6	25-23, 30-32, 15-8	1:10
Lead the series against # 12 Schwaiger/Schwaiger, Austria 1-0
7/3/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 3	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Schwaiger/Schwaiger	12	21-17, 21-16	0:42
Lead the series against # 14 Keizer/Van Iersel, Netherlands 1-0
5/30/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Winner 3	Antonelli/Antunes	4	Keizer/Van Iersel	12	21-14, 21-19	0:37
Lead the series against # 17 Mouha/Van Breedam, Belgium 2-0
7/3/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 2	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Mouha/Van Breedam	17	21-15, 21-15	0:38
5/21/09	FIVB	Japan Open	Winner 2	Antonelli/Antunes	5	Mouha/Van Breedam	12	21-17, 16-21, 15-12	0:50
Trail the series against # 20 Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani, Greece 0-1
4/23/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Contender 3	Arvaniti/Tsiartsiani	15	Antonelli/Antunes	7	15-21, 21-17, 19-17	1:01
Lead the series against # 22 Petrova/Skalnikova, Czech Republic 1-0
5/30/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Semi-Finals	Antonelli/Antunes	4	Petrova/Skalnikova	22	21-12, 21-10	0:40
Lead the series against # 23 Xue/Zhang, China 1-0
7/1/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool B	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Xue/Zhang	23	21-14, 21-19	0:42
Lead the series against # 26 Remmers/Stiekema, Netherlands 1-0
6/29/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool B	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Remmers/Stiekema	26	18-21, 21-17, 20-18	1:09
Trail the series against # 27 Kuhn/Zumkehr, Switzerland 0-1
4/22/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Winner 2	Kuhn/Zumkehr	23	Antonelli/Antunes	7	21-17, 24-22	0:43
Lead the series against # 33 Martins/Santanna, Georgia 2-0
5/28/09	FIVB	Seoul Open	Winner 2	Antonelli/Antunes	4	Martins/Santanna	20, Q2	21-15, 21-16	0:34
4/30/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 2	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Martins/Santanna	10	17-21, 21-14, 15-13	0:43
Lead the series against # 41 Mooren/Wesselink, Netherlands 1-0
7/2/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 1	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Mooren/Wesselink	41	21-12, 21-13	0:34
Lead the series against # 44 Boulton/Johns, England 1-0
4/22/09	FIVB	Brasilia Open	Winner 1	Antonelli/Antunes	7	Boulton/Johns	26, Q2	28-30, 21-13, 15-12	0:56
Lead the series against # 47 Prokopeva/Ukolova, Russia 1-0
6/27/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool B	Antonelli/Antunes	2	Prokopeva/Ukolova	47	23-25, 21-18, 15-10	0:59