2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour The 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is the global elite professional beach volleyball circuit organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for the 2018 beach volleyball season. Starts in late August 2018 after the end of the year season, the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar comprised by four FIVB World Tour 5-star tournaments (including the World Tour Finals), thirteen FIVB World Tour 4-star, seven 3-star, six 2-star and twenty-two 1-star event, all organised by the FIVB. The World Championships will be held in Hamburg, Germany from June 28 to July
Beach volleyball In the 1960s, an attempt to start a professional volleyball league was made in Santa Monica. It failed, but a professional tournament was held in France for 30,000 French francs. In the 1950s, the first Brazilian beach volleyball tournament was held, sponsored by a newspaper publishing company. The first Manhattan Beach Open was held in 1960, a tournament which grew in prestige to become, in the eyes of some, the "Wimbledon of Beach Volleyball". In the meantime, beach volleyball gained popularity: in the 1960s The Beatles tried playing in Los Angeles and US president John F. Kennedy was seen attending