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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$1,000,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013
July 1 - 6, 2013

(19) Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany

Laura Ludwig
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jan 13, 1986 (38 yrs old)

Home Town:

Berlin

Resides:

Hamburg

Height:

181 cm (5'10")

Weight:

70 kg (154 lb)

Seasons:

19

Tournaments:

172

Career Wins:

13

Career FIVB WT Wins:

12

Career Winnings:

US$1,028,862.50

Kira Walkenhorst
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Nov 18, 1990 (33 yrs old)

Home Town:

Essen

Resides:

Hamburg

Height:

184 cm (6'0")

Weight:

75 kg (165 lb)

Seasons:

7

Tournaments:

53

Career Wins:

12

Career FIVB WT Wins:

11

Career Winnings:

US$517,387.50

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	43	11	3	4	3	8	0	9	0	4	1	US$991,275.00
Other	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$8,000.00
Overall	44	11	3	4	4	8	0	9	0	4	1	US$999,275.00

Previous Stare Jablonki Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2008	Sara Niedrig - 13th	Did not play
2010	Sara Niedrig - 9th	Did not play
2011	Sara Niedrig - 9th	Did not play
2012	Did not play	Geeske Banck - 9th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/18-23/2013	Rome Grand Slam	17	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	6/11-16/2013	The Hague Grand Slam	12	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	5/1-5/2013	Shanghai Grand Slam	14	5	480	US$10,000.00
FIVB	4/24-28/2013	Fuzhou Open	15	25	150	US$1,500.00

Stare Jablonki World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Mon, 7/1/2013

Pool F

Barbora Hermannova / Martina Williams, Czech Republic (30)

Won 21-13, 23-21

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	14	7	1	0.429	0	6	3	5
	1	7	3	0	0.429	0	2	1	2
	2	7	4	1	0.429	0	4	2	3
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	26	14	3	0.423	5	2	2	4
	1	9	5	1	0.444	5	1	1	2
	2	17	9	2	0.412	0	1	1	2

Tue, 7/2/2013

Pool F

Tanja Goricanec / Tanja Huberli, Switzerland (43)

Won 21-17, 21-11

0:33

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	13	7	2	0.385	0	7	3	4
	1	8	3	2	0.125	0	6	0	1
	2	5	4	0	0.800	0	1	3	3
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	23	11	5	0.261	4	2	4	4
	1	14	6	2	0.286	2	2	2	3
	2	9	5	3	0.222	2	0	2	1

Wed, 7/3/2013

Pool F

Maria Antonelli / Agatha Bednarczuk, Brazil (6)

Lost 17-21, 11-21

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	24	11	6	0.208	0	7	0	2
	1	10	5	3	0.200	0	5	0	1
	2	14	6	3	0.214	0	2	0	1
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	20	7	4	0.150	1	3	2	4
	1	10	4	1	0.300	1	2	1	2
	2	10	3	3	0.000	0	1	1	2

Thu, 7/4/2013

Winner 1

Talita Antunes / Taiana Lima, Brazil (11)

Won 21-17, 14-21, 20-18

0:53

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	37	22	4	0.486	0	5	2	5
	1	7	6	1	0.714	0	3	1	1
	2	15	5	2	0.200	0	1	0	0
	3	15	11	1	0.667	0	1	1	4
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	23	19	1	0.783	2	1	1	7
	1	12	9	1	0.667	1	1	0	5
	2	6	5	0	0.833	1	0	0	1
	3	5	5	0	1.000	0	0	1	1

Fri, 7/5/2013

Winner 2

Ekaterina Birlova / Evgenia Ukolova, Russia (7)

Won 21-19, 21-16

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	19	16	0	0.842	1	8	1	1
	1	9	7	0	0.778	0	5	1	1
	2	10	9	0	0.900	1	3	0	0
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	22	12	4	0.364	5	3	0	3
	1	14	8	2	0.429	2	1	0	1
	2	8	4	2	0.250	3	2	0	2

Fri, 7/5/2013

Winner 3

Chen Xue / Xi Zhang, China (2)

Lost 15-21, 15-21

0:39

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	Total	28	12	6	0.214	0	10	0	1
	1	12	5	3	0.167	0	5	0	0
	2	16	7	3	0.250	0	5	0	1
Kira Walkenhorst	Total	25	9	7	0.080	2	2	1	3
	1	15	8	3	0.333	1	2	0	0
	2	10	1	4	-0.300	1	0	1	3

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Laura Ludwig	135	75	19	0.415	1	43	9	18
Kira Walkenhorst	139	72	24	0.345	19	13	10	25

World Championships Results

Year	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2005	Berlin	Sara Niedrig - 17th	Did not play
2007	Gstaad	Sara Niedrig - 17th	Did not play
2009	Stavanger	Sara Niedrig - 9th	Did not play
2011	Rome	Sara Niedrig - 9th	Did not play
2015	The Hague	Kira Walkenhorst - 17th	Laura Ludwig - 17th
2017	Vienna	Kira Walkenhorst - 1st	Laura Ludwig - 1st
2019	Hamburg	Margareta Kozuch - 17th	Did not play
2023	Tlaxcala	Louisa Lippmann - 17th	Did not play

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/1-6/2013	Stare Jablonki World Championships	19	5	600	US$18,000.00
FIVB	6/26-7/4/2015	Netherlands World Championships	11	17	400	US$7,000.00
FIVB	7/28-8/5/2017	Vienna World Championships	4	1	1600	US$60,000.00

Head to Head Results
Ludwig/Walkenhorst lead the series against the field 13-7

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 2 Xue/Zhang, China 0-1
7/5/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Winner 3	Xue/Zhang	2	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	21-15, 21-15	0:39
Trail the series against # 6 Antonelli/Bednarczuk, Brazil 0-1
7/3/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Antonelli/Bednarczuk	6	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	21-17, 21-11	0:36
Lead the series against # 7 Birlova/Ukolova, Russia 2-0
7/5/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Winner 2	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	Birlova/Ukolova	7	21-19, 21-16	0:38
6/13/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool E	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	12	Birlova/Ukolova	5	21-9, 21-16	0:30
Lead the series against # 8 Cicolari/Menegatti, Italy 2-0
6/19/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool A	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	17	Cicolari/Menegatti	1	21-17, 21-17	0:41
5/3/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Pool C	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	14	Cicolari/Menegatti	3	26-24, 26-24	0:46
Trail the series against # 9 Keizer/Van Iersel, Netherlands 0-1
4/26/13	FIVB	Fuzhou Open	Pool B	Keizer/Van Iersel	2	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	15	By Forfeit
Series tied with # 11 Antunes/Lima, Brazil 1-1
7/4/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Winner 1	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	Antunes/Lima	11	21-17, 14-21, 20-18	0:53
6/21/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Winner 2	Antunes/Lima	5	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	17	21-12, 16-21, 15-9	0:47
Lead the series against # 17 Borger/Buthe, Germany 1-0
6/19/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool A	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	17	Borger/Buthe	16	21-14, 21-15	0:35
Trail the series against # 18 Schwaiger/Schwaiger, Austria 1-2
5/4/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Winner 3	Schwaiger/Schwaiger	19	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	14	21-16, 21-17	0:33
5/2/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Pool C	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	14	Schwaiger/Schwaiger	19	21-12, 21-17	0:25
4/25/13	FIVB	Fuzhou Open	Pool B	Schwaiger/Schwaiger	18	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	15	By Forfeit
Lead the series against # 28 Fopma/Sweat, United States 1-0
6/12/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool E	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	12	Fopma/Sweat	21	25-23, 30-28	0:49
Series tied with # 29 van der Vlist/Wesselink, Netherlands 1-1
6/14/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Winner 2	Wesselink/van der Vlist	26	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	12	12-21, 21-17, 15-13	0:45
5/4/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Winner 2	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	14	Wesselink/van der Vlist	28, Q12	21-17, 21-14	0:34
Lead the series against # 30 Hermannova/Williams, Czech Republic 1-0
7/1/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	Hermannova/Williams	30	21-13, 23-21	0:38
Lead the series against # 38 Sinnema/Stiekema, Netherlands 1-0
6/12/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool E	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	12	Sinnema/Stiekema	28, Q10	21-16, 21-9	0:29
Lead the series against # 41 Arvaniti/Karagkouni, Greece 1-0
6/20/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool A	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	17	Arvaniti/Karagkouni	32	21-16, 21-11	0:29
Lead the series against # 43 Goricanec/Huberli, Switzerland 1-0
7/2/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Ludwig/Walkenhorst	19	Goricanec/Huberli	43	21-17, 21-11	0:33