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Pre-Tournament Notes
Main Draw Brackets After Friday
Men's Team Summaries
Women's Team Summaries
League Qualifications (final)
Women's Championship Notes: #1 Kloth / Nuss vs #3 Humana-Paredes / Wilkerson
Men's Championship Notes: #2 Benesh / Partain vs. #3 Ta. Crabb / Sander

Tournament Notables:

• Four-time Olympian Phil Dalhausser is playing in his 300th beach tournament.  Here is a breakdown of the events on the various tours:
              AVP – 163rd event, 62 wins
              FIVB / World Beach Pro Tour – 132 events, 39 wins
              NVL – 3 events, 1 win
              Parks and Recreation – 1 event, 0 wins (finished 2nd)
              NORCECA – 1 event, 1 win
• Trevor Crabb is trying to accomplish something that hasn’t been done since 1983-1985 as that was the last time that a male player won three consecutive years in Chicago.  Mike Dodd / Tim Hovland won in 1983 on the Parks and Rec Tour, then in 1984 and 1985 on the AVP Tour.  Meanwhile Crabb won in 2022 with Tri Bourne and then last season with Brunner.
  
• In the last nine tournaments here, just twice has a male player in his 20s won (Taylor Crabb when he was 26 and 27) while in that span four times a player in his 40s won.
• This week’s AVP event features 16 players who have played in the Olympics (either indoors or on the beach).  Players here have competed for three different countries.  Eight of the 16 men’s teams have at least one Olympian.  This is the first tournament for Melissa Humana-Paredes / Brandie Wilkerson since winning the silver medal in Paris on August 9.
• Andy Benesh / Miles Partain have advanced to the title match in each of their fist 4 AVP tournaments as partners, something which hasn't happened since 1990.  Only one other team has been able to play in the championship match in its first 5 events, Mike Dodd and Karch Kiraly in 1985 and 1987.