The third Roundnet World Championship finished at Parc du Tremblay in Champigny-sur-Marne on 6 September with five titles decided and four different nations taking one, and the results of all five divisions are set out below in full.
Three of the four singles semi-finals in Champigny-sur-Marne went to a third game on Friday, and every one of them was settled on a second serve, the one ball a server cannot afford to miss.
Day one of four at the Roundnet World Championship in Paris produced 987 games, 27,016 points and two nations winning the first medals in their history, with Italy taking the mixed title and the Netherlands the bronze.
Before Thursday evening six nations had ever won a medal at a Roundnet World Championship, and by the end of it there were eight, because the Netherlands took a bronze and Italy took the mixed title from the top seeds in three games.
Eight pairs came out of the round that decides the men's bracket in Paris on the same four wins and one defeat, four of them will play for a medal and four will not, and the win-loss column is not what separated them.
Upsets, comebacks and a quarterfinal nightmare for Team USA on the opening day of the 2024 Roundnet World Championship in London.
A tournament report from the Munich Masters 2024: how the weekend played out, who impressed, and credit to the people who actually organised it.
Final standings from ETS Barcelona 2024 across the divisions, plus the offset clinic run by T. Kukuljan and Ro. Felix alongside the tournament.
Laura Kunzelmann takes a fourth Mallorca title with a fourth different partner, and Buddy Hammon becomes the most decorated player in the tournament's history.
Guest report by Clement Martin-G on the third edition of the French national championship in Toulouse.