Success Story

It was oh so close… but in the final of the sixth annual Beach Volleyball Masters Tournament — which each year draws the world’s top-ranked beach volleyball doubles teams to the Odysseum shopping center — the French duo of Ayé and Gauthier-Rat went down to defeat at the hands of the same Dutch team responsible for their only previous loss. The French will have their chance again, though: the 2019 event was a qualifying match for the 2020 Olympic Games.