Women's Preview: AVP Brooklyn Open presented by Cushman & Wakefield
Fans attending the AVP Brooklyn Open presented by Cushman & Wakefield will notice some changes. Of the 24 women's teams seeded directly into the main draw, only nine began the year playing with each other. These nine teams have played in all the events this season as partners.
This week three of the top six seeds are in their first or second tournament together, making for some new dynamics on the women's side. Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs join forces for the first time this weekend, forming one of the tallest teams. One of those two players has been in each of the last nine championship matches on the AVP CROCS Tour. Plus, Youngs has an impressive streak of reaching the finals with new partners in their first outing; she has accomplished that each of the last four times she has changed partners. Youngs has played in the Final Four of every AVP team event she has ever entered. Together, as the second-seeded team, Branagh / Youngs are two of the tour's best servers and blockers.
The third seeds are no strangers to the finals either, as individually Jennifer Boss and Rachel Wacholder have appeared in eight of the title matches so far. Playing together last week in Manhattan for the first time, Boss and Wacholder just missed making the Final Four. Playing in the second-longest match of the year time-wise, the duo fell 26-24 in game three to Branagh and Holly McPeak.
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