FIVB Future Tournament

Reiter sensationally storms into the main draw in Baden

Huge jubilation for beach volleyball player Jakob Reiter! First the 25-year-old from Dornbirn got a starting place in the qualifiers for the international FIVB Future tournament in Baden at the last minute, and then he and his Carinthian partner Michi Klemen made the headlines in Lower Austria.

"The fact that we even made it into the qualifying field was quite unexpected for us," admitted Ländle-Beachboy Jakob Reiter, who managed to get a ticket for the FIVB Future tournament in Baden with his Carinthian partner Michi Klemen at the last minute. "We were way down the waiting list for a long time, but our patience was rewarded in the end."

False start followed gala
Reiter/Klemen then proved that they deserved their place in the tournament in their first match against Weber/Hilbert (Lux). "After a classic false start, we quickly took a 3:0 lead in the second set, which gave us confidence," said the Dornbirn native. Security that the duo used to wrap up the match 18:21, 21:16, 15:10 after 49 minutes.

Michael Klemen (l.) and Jakob Reiter were delighted to make it through to the main competition of the FIVB Future tournament in Baden near Vienna.(Bild: Florian Schroetter)

Duel with the top duo awaits
But that was not all: In the second and final qualifying round, the Austrians made relatively short work of Nemec/Petruf (Slovakia) and secured their place in the main competition with a 25:23, 21:16 win. "We knew that we had to improve again. So it's even cooler that we managed to do that and that we're still in the tournament on Friday," said a delighted Reiter. And that's where they start at 12 noon in Pool A against the top-seeded duo Grössig/Seiser.