Tickets now on Sale for AVP Crocs Tour Brooklyn Open

Tickets now on Sale for AVP Crocs Tour Brooklyn Open

Pro beach volleyball's premier tournaments will be held July 2-5 on Coney Island

Tickets on sale at www.avp.com.

LOS ANGELES, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets are now on sale for professional beach volleyball's only stop in the Big Apple, as the AVP Crocs Tour Brooklyn Open is set to take place July 2-5, on the beach in Coney Island. The best athletes on the beach will take to the sand to see who reigns supreme.

Tickets are available at www.avp.com.

Thursday's open qualifier, which runs on Thursday from 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. and Friday's session, which runs from 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., will be free to the public. Tickets for Saturday's and Sunday's sessions start at $10 for General Admission, and go up to $25 for courtside seating. Youths under 18 will be admitted for $5. Also, to celebrate our nation's birth, Saturday will feature a Fourth of July tickets special: four General Admission tickets, four Johnsonville bratwursts and four drinks, all for $30.

The three-day, double elimination tournaments combine elite athletic competition with a beach party atmosphere. Surging top men's team Sean Scott and John Hyden and Olympian Kevin Wong and partner Matt Olson will battle it out on the men's side, while Olympians Jenny Johnson Jordan and Annett Davis sit atop the draw on the women's side.

An open qualifier will take place on Thursday, July 2, while main draw play begins Friday, July 3. Main Draw play will continue through Saturday, July 4 and will conclude with the women's finals at 4:30 p.m. The men's tournament will continue on Sunday, July 5 and will conclude with finals at 4:30 p.m.

The semifinals for this event will be broadcast LIVE on Universal Sports, while both finals will air LIVE on NBC Sports.

"We're excited to celebrate the Fourth of July in New York City and on NBC Sports," said Lauren Decker, senior director of marketing for AVP Pro Beach Volleyball. "Coney Island has become one of the top stops on our Tour and we're so pleased to be returning for what we know will be a great, All-American beach party weekend."

The AVP Crocs Tour Brooklyn Open will take place at 21st and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

To purchase tickets to all AVP Crocs Tour events, please visit www.avp.com.

About AVP, Inc.:

AVP, Inc. is a leading lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on the production, marketing and distribution of professional beach volleyball events worldwide. One of the fastest growing entities in the sports world, the AVP operates two of the industry's most prominent national touring series, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (1983) and the AVP Hot Winter Nights Indoor Tour (launched in 2008). The AVP is set to stage more than 35 events throughout the United States in 2009 and features more than 150 of the top male and female competitors in the sport. AVP athletes won both the women's and men's gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, marking the first gold medal sweep by a single country in the history of Olympic Beach Volleyball. AVP is headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. For more information, please visit www.avp.com.

Source: AVP, Inc.

CONTACT: Alison Shapiro, Public Relations Manager of AVP Pro Beach
Volleyball Tour, +1-310-426-7112, ashapiro@avp.com

Web Site: http://www.avp.com/

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