For the sixth time in the beach of Karon Beach, Phuket, hosts a round of the World Tour and, like last year , this is the closing in this very intense season.
The men had already completed their schedule in late August at The Hague, the Netherlands, while the women, after Sanya (and China) still chose the lovely Asia for a "preview" at the end to a location very charming.
Let's see what happened in the five previous editions of the Phuket Thailand Open:
- in 2005 (they played an FIVB Challenger in order to promote tourism to the area after the terrible tsunami that had plagued the region) the success went the Nipponese Eiko Koizumi and Tanaka Shanako
- in 2006, in a final whole of China, Xue Chen / Zhang Xi defeated Jia Tian / Jie Wang: 2-0 (21-18 and 21-15) in 48 minutes. A curiosity: two years later, the Olympic Games in Beijing, Tian / Wang had the best on Xue / Zhang in the semis and then lost in the race that gave the first step of the podium against the "icons" Walsh / May-Treanor.
- nel 2007 Misty e Kerri superarono le connazionali Nicole Branagh ed Elaine Youngs: 2-1 (21-18, 16-21 e 15-13) in 58 minuti. Curioso gioco di incroci: Tian e Wang quell'anno ottennero il bronzo, l'anno prima Walsh/May conclusero terze (perdendo in semifinale con Xue/Zhang).
- nel 2008 l'oro andò a Jennifer Kessy ed April Ross: 2-1 (18-21, 21-14 e 15-12) in 63 minuti contro le connazionali Branagh e Turner.
- nel 2009 Jen & April si ripeterono contro Akers/Turner: 2-0 (21-12 e 21-17) in 37 minuti. Il podio tutto USA fu negato dalle russe Maria Bratkova ed Evgenia Ukolova, che divennero il primo team femminile del loro paese a conquistare una medaglia the Swatch FIVB World Tour in the final for third place were in fact the best 2-1 (15-21, 22-20 and 15-9) in 53 minutes over Lauren Fendrick and Ashley Ivy.
Phuket has about 80,000 inhabitants of the district capital, overlooking the Andaman Sea coast.
E 'divided into two sub-district (or Tambon): Talad Yai Talad Nuea.
several years can be reached from Bangkok by air with several minor lines, although they are still in use links by bus (duration: about 12 hours!).
impossible not to remember the disastrous tsunami in the Indian Ocean, December 26, 2004, made it tragically uno dei centri thailandesi maggiormente colpiti dal terribile evento.
Fonte: http://www.beachvolleymagazine.it
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