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Swiss net second SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals medal
- Updated: September 17, 2016
Toronto, Canada, September 17, 2016 – It was a great day for women’s beach volleyball players from Switzerland as the teams of Joana Heidrich/Nadine Zumkehr and Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre secured positions on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals podium after winning matches here Saturday on the Polson Pier center court.
Despite losing to compatriots Heidrich and Zumkehr in Saturday’s morning’s first semi-final match, Forrer and Verge-Depre rebounded in the afternoon to claim the bronze medal by posting a 2-0 (21-19, 21-18) win in 35 minutes over Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca of Brazil in the third-place match.
The victory was Forrer and Verge-Depre first win in two FIVB World Tour meetings with Talita and Larissa, who captured the 2015 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals in the United States last October on Fort Lauderdale Beach in south Florida. The previous meeting between the two teams was at the 2014 Polish Grand Slam in Stare Jablonki where the Brazilians posted a three-set pool play victory.
With the event featuring men’s play and a US$500,000 prize purse, Forrer and Verge-Depre shared $20,000 for …
