Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo will begin their bid to claim a fourth continental crown in five years tomorrow with the Beach Volleyball European Championships set to begin in The Netherlands.

four cities; The Hague, Apeldoorn, Rotterdam and Utrecht.Home favourites Dirk Boehlé and Steven van de Velde

Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan of Canada enjoyed a tough opening victory today at the Beach Volleyball World Tour in the Portuguese town of Espinho.

beaten 21-13, 21-16 by Stefan Basta and Lazar Kolaric of Serbia.Dirk Boehlé and Steven van de Velde

Home favourites Joy Stubbe and Madelein Meppelink beat Japan’s Miki Ishii and Megumi Murakami today to book their place in the women’s final at the International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour Aalsmeer Open.

17-21, 21-16, 14-16 to Ukraine’s Sergiy Popov and Oleksii Denin before Dirk Boehlé and Steven van de Velde

Ruben Penninga and Tom van Steenis were one of three pairings from hosts The Netherlands to reach the second round of the men’s draw at the International Volleyball Federation Beach World Tour Aalsmeer Open today.

19-21, 15-12.The two other Dutch duos through to the second round are Dirk Boehlé and Steven van de Velde

and Sven Vismans and Jannes van der Ham.Boehlé and Van de Velde overcame Serbian third seeds Djordje

The Netherlands' Dirk Boehle and Steven Van de Velde caused a major upset to reach the quarter-finals

eighth seeds Li Zhuoxin and Zhou Chaowei of China in straight sets at Haibin Square.Boehle and Van de Velde

“At the beginning we started pretty strong,” Van de Velde said.

federation to impose a ban on convicted rapist and promising beach volleyball star Steven Van de Velde

Keynes in Buckinghamshire to meet the girl when he was 19.Having failed to book a hotel room, Van de Velde

contraception and when she visited the clinic, the authorities intervened due to her young age.Van de Velde

appearing at the Olympics were now a  “shattered dream” and that he had a “dark side”.Steven Van de Velde

of the age difference.”Despite the incident occurring almost a full year before Baku 2015, Van de Velde

Brazil’s Alvaro Filho claimed revenge over defending men's champions and home favourites Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwse in the last 32 of the Beach Volleyball World Championship in The Netherlands, two years on from suffering defeat at their hands in the final.

three teams, but now have only one to support in the last 16 as Michiel van Dorsten and Steven van de Velde

Three Dutch men’s pairings advanced to the knock-out phase of the Beach Volleyball World Championships, in front of their home crowd in The Netherlands, as the pool phase came to a close.

Michiel van Dorsten and Steven van de Velde progression to the round of 32 looked precarious as after

played across The Netherlands in Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Rotterdam and The Hague.Van Dorsten and van de Velde