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AVP Tour
$150,000 Manhattan Beach Open
August 14 - 17, 2014

(1) April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings

April Ross

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 20, 1982 (41 yrs old)

Home Town:

Newport Beach, CA

Resides:

Costa Mesa, CA

Height:

6'1"

College(s):

Southern California

Seasons:

Tournaments:

269

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$2,041,312.50

Kerri Walsh Jennings

Photo: Brian White

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Aug 15, 1978 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Santa Clara, CA

Resides:

Manhattan Beach, CA

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

Stanford

Seasons:

Tournaments:

263

Career Wins:

135

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$2,651,635.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$192,500.00
FIVB	32	11	3	3	2	6	0	6	0	1	0	US$758,500.00
Overall	45	23	3	4	2	6	0	6	0	1	0	US$951,000.00

Previous Manhattan Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	Did not play	Misty May-Treanor - 1st
2004	Did not play	Misty May-Treanor - 3rd
2005	Did not play	Misty May-Treanor - 1st
2006	Keao Burdine - 17th	Misty May-Treanor - 1st
2007	Jennifer Kessy - 5th	Misty May-Treanor - 1st
2008	Jennifer Kessy - 2nd	Misty May-Treanor - 1st
2013	Jennifer Kessy - 3rd	Whitney Pavlik - 1st

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	8/7-10/2014	Salt Lake City Open	1	1	750	$15,000.00
FIVB	7/29-8/2/2014	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	1	9	360	US$11,000.00
FIVB	7/22-27/2014	ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball	1	1	800	US$70,000.00
FIVB	7/15-20/2014	The Hague Grand Slam	2	9	360	US$14,000.00
FIVB	7/8-13/2014	Gstaad Grand Slam	1	9	360	US$11,000.00
AVP	7/3-6/2014	Milwaukee Open	1	1	750	$15,000.00
FIVB	6/24-28/2014	Stavanger Grand Slam	1	1	800	US$57,000.00
FIVB	6/17-22/2014	Berlin Grand Slam	2	5	480	US$17,000.00
FIVB	6/11-15/2014	Moscow Grand Slam	2	1	800	US$57,000.00
AVP	5/29-6/1/2014	St. Petersburg Open	2	1	750	$15,000.00
FIVB	4/30-5/4/2014	Shanghai Grand Slam	3	5	480	US$17,000.00
FIVB	4/23-27/2014	Fuzhou Open	4	1	500	US$11,000.00
FIVB	10/23-27/2013	Xiamen Grand Slam	5	1	800	US$33,000.00
AVP	10/17-20/2013	AVP Championships at Huntington Beach	1	3	540	$9,500.00
FIVB	10/8-13/2013	São Paulo Grand Slam	10	1	800	US$33,000.00
AVP	9/26-29/2013	AVP Santa Barbara Open	1	1	750	$15,000.00
FIVB	7/9-14/2013	Gstaad Grand Slam	10	9	400	US$5,500.00

Manhattan Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 8/15/2014

Winner 1

Delaney Mewhirter / Katie Spieler (32, Q27)

Won 21-9, 21-9

0:28

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	15	11	1	0.667	2	14	1	1
	1	7	6	0	0.857	0	9	0	1
	2	8	5	1	0.500	2	5	1	0
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	26	22	1	0.808	2	10	0	0
	1	13	11	1	0.769	1	3	0	0
	2	13	11	0	0.846	1	7	0	0

Fri, 8/15/2014

Winner 2

Branagan Fuller / Caley Redden (16)

Won 21-10, 21-6

0:27

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	18	15	1	0.778	1	6	3	4
	1	9	8	0	0.889	0	1	2	3
	2	9	7	1	0.667	1	5	1	1
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	12	9	1	0.667	2	6	1	1
	1	6	3	1	0.333	0	4	1	1
	2	6	6	0	1.000	2	2	0	0

Sat, 8/16/2014

Winner 3

Olaya Pazo / Sheila Shaw (9)

Won 21-12, 21-15

0:33

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	26	20	2	0.692	0	9	4	1
	1	10	8	1	0.700	0	5	2	0
	2	16	12	1	0.688	0	4	2	1
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	16	10	2	0.500	2	9	0	3
	1	9	6	1	0.556	1	3	0	0
	2	7	4	1	0.429	1	6	0	3

Sat, 8/16/2014

Winner 4

Lane Carico / Kim DiCello (5)

Won 21-12, 21-15

0:39

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	28	13	0	0.464	1	19	2	2
	1	11	6	0	0.545	0	7	1	2
	2	17	7	0	0.412	1	12	1	0
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	27	13	4	0.333	0	15	0	1
	1	16	9	2	0.438	0	10	0	1
	2	11	4	2	0.182	0	5	0	0

Sun, 8/17/2014

Semi-Finals

Emily Capers / Summer Ross (3)

Won 22-24, 21-15, 15-8

1:00

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	36	23	4	0.528	2	27	0	3
	1	18	9	2	0.389	2	11	0	2
	2	9	8	0	0.889	0	7	0	1
	3	9	6	2	0.444	0	9	0	0
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	42	23	3	0.476	3	11	0	0
	1	17	7	1	0.353	0	5	0	0
	2	14	10	1	0.643	0	3	0	0
	3	11	6	1	0.455	3	3	0	0

Sun, 8/17/2014

Finals

Lauren Fendrick / Brooke Sweat (2)

Won 19-21, 21-13, 9-0 Retired

1:08

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	Total	37	15	3	0.324	1	26	0	2
	1	19	7	3	0.211	0	13	0	2
	2	12	5	0	0.417	1	7	0	0
	3	6	3	0	0.500	0	6	0	0
Kerri Walsh Jennings	Total	31	17	4	0.419	4	7	0	0
	1	17	10	3	0.412	0	2	0	0
	2	12	5	1	0.333	1	4	0	0
	3	2	2	0	1.000	3	1	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
April Ross	160	97	11	0.538	7	101	10	13
Kerri Walsh Jennings	154	94	15	0.513	13	58	1	5

Head to Head Results
Ross/Walsh Jennings lead the series against the field 19-0

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 2 Fendrick/Sweat 5-0
8/17/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Fendrick/Sweat	2	19-21, 21-13, 9-0 Retired	1:08
8/10/14	AVP	Salt Lake City Open	Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Fendrick/Sweat	2	21-16, 21-15	0:50
7/6/14	AVP	Milwaukee Open	Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Fendrick/Sweat	2	15-21, 21-16, 15-13	1:05
6/14/14	FIVB	Moscow Grand Slam	Winner 2	Ross/Walsh Jennings	2	Fendrick/Sweat	11	21-15, 21-15	0:34
6/1/14	AVP	St. Petersburg Open	Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	2	Fendrick/Sweat	4	19-21, 21-15, 15-11	1:08
Lead the series against # 3 Capers/Ross 5-0
8/17/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Semi-Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Capers/Ross	3	22-24, 21-15, 15-8	1:00
8/10/14	AVP	Salt Lake City Open	Semi-Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Capers/Ross	3	21-14, 21-17	0:36
7/9/14	FIVB	Gstaad Grand Slam	Pool A	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Capers/Ross	16	22-20, 21-19	0:39
6/27/14	FIVB	Stavanger Grand Slam	Winner 3	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Capers/Ross	13	21-16, 21-14	0:32
6/1/14	AVP	St. Petersburg Open	Semi-Finals	Ross/Walsh Jennings	2	Capers/Ross	1	21-15, 21-13	0:39
Lead the series against # 5 Carico/DiCello 1-0
8/16/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 4	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Carico/DiCello	5	21-12, 21-15	0:39
Lead the series against # 7 Branagh/Lawson 1-0
8/9/14	AVP	Salt Lake City Open	Winner 2	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Branagh/Lawson	9	21-18, 21-15	0:36
Lead the series against # 9 Pazo/Shaw 1-0
8/16/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 3	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Pazo/Shaw	9	21-12, 21-15	0:33
Lead the series against # 13 Callahan/Stockman 1-0
8/9/14	AVP	Salt Lake City Open	Winner 3	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Callahan/Stockman	13, Q3	21-18, 21-16	0:36
Lead the series against # 15 Peterson/White 1-0
9/27/13	AVP	AVP Santa Barbara Open	Winner 1	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Peterson/White	16, Q4	21-11, 21-7	0:32
Lead the series against # 16 Fuller/Redden 2-0
8/15/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 2	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Fuller/Redden	16	21-10, 21-6	0:27
5/30/14	AVP	St. Petersburg Open	Winner 1	Ross/Walsh Jennings	2	Fuller/Redden	15, Q7	21-14, 21-14	0:34
Lead the series against # 17 Fiume/Pavels 1-0
7/4/14	AVP	Milwaukee Open	Winner 1	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Fiume/Pavels	16, Q11	21-8, 21-9	0:27
Lead the series against # 32, Q27 Mewhirter/Spieler 1-0
8/15/14	AVP	Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 1	Ross/Walsh Jennings	1	Mewhirter/Spieler	32, Q27	21-9, 21-9	0:28