It’s two for two in 2012 for Santa Barbara's gold-medal pro beach volleyball team.Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser are flying high at the start of the SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The local team won its second straight tournament title on Sunday, taking the Shanghai Grand Slam in China.In an all-American final, the defending Olympic champions defeated Sean Rosenthal and Jake Gibb 21-19, 22-24, 15-11. Two weeks ago at the season-opening Brasilia Open in Brazil, they defeated … [Read more...]
Rogers-Dalhausser start FIVB season with a title in Brazil
Sunday, April 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers let the beach volleyball world know that he is back at full strength.Nine months after a knee injury ended his 2011 season, Rogers and 6-foot-9 partner Phil Dalhausser won the opening event on the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The Santa Barbara duo defeated fellow Americans Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena to capture the $380,000 Brasilia Open in Brazil on Sunday. The set scores were 21-17, 21-18.The title clinches a berth in the London Olympics for the defending … [Read more...]
Rogers suffers season-ending knee injury in Finland
Sunday, August 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The season is over for Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser.Rogers suffered a knee injury during the championship of the FIVB World Tour’s Aland Open in Finland and was forced to withdraw near the end of the first set."Coming home tomorrow. Done for the season," Rogers said in an email to Presidio Sports. "I have had a small meniscus tear since before Beijing this year. Just been dealing with it. This was either a much worse tear or a ligament. Hurts like hell."Rogers and Dalhausser … [Read more...]
Todd-Phil reach seventh FIVB World Tour final
Saturday, August 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser are one win away from tying for the most tournament titles this season on the FIVB World Tour.The local pro beach volleyball professionals advanced to the final of the Aland Open in Finland on Saturday with a tough three-set semifinal win over Poland’s Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel, arguably the most improved team on the international tour. The set scores were 21-19, 18-21, 15-12.The top-seeded Rogers-Dalhausser will play Brazil’s Marcio Araujo … [Read more...]
Another FIVB final four for Todd and Phil
Friday, August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser have made the semifinals in a FIVB World Tour event for the ninth time in 12 tournaments this season.The local pro beach volleyball professionals won two matches on Friday to reach the final four at the Aland Open in Finland. The top-seeded duo will be joined by Brazil’s Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti and two other teams that will be determined on Saturday.Rogers-Dalhausser are looking for their fifth FIVB title of the season, which would match the … [Read more...]
Video: Todd Rogers goes off on referee in Poland
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Anybody who knows pro beach volleyball player Todd Rogers knows he's very competitive and goes off on referees when he doesn't like a call.He did just that in a recent FIVB World Tour event in Poland. Here's a video clip of his tirade.Rogers later apologized to the referee. … [Read more...]
Todd and Phil claim bronze medal in Klagenfurt
Sunday, August 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser reached the podium for the fifth straight FIVB World Tour tournament on Sunday, earning the bronze medal at a Grand Slam event in Klagenfurt, Austria.The local beach volleyball professionals defeated Brazil’s Joao Maciel and Bruno Schmidt, 21-14, 21-12 in the third-place match.The bronze is their eighth medal in 11 matches on the World Tour this season. A gold in Klagenfurt would have been their fifth title of the season, matching the number of wins by … [Read more...]
Rogers-Dalhausser win fourth FIVB title the hard way
Sunday, July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After backing themselves into a corner to start the tournament, Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser regrouped and finished as champions.The local pro beach volleyball team beat the top seeded team from Brazil in the semifinals and outlasted the hometown Polish team in the championship of the FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event in Stare Jablonki, Poland on Sunday.In the final, Rogers-Dalhausser beat Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel of Poland, 21-15, 15-21, 15-13, in 53 minutes.It was … [Read more...]
Todd-Phil get back to a final, finish second in Gstaad
Sunday, July 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser found their way back to a final on the FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour, but the local stars fell short of the gold medal as they lost against Brazil’s Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti, 22-20, 21-19, in Gstaad, Switzerland on Sunday.Rogers-Dalhausser were knocked out of the quarterfinals in the last three FIVB tournaments, starting with a Grand Slam event in Beijing, China, where Dalhausser suffered a sprained left ankle. The injury affected the team’s … [Read more...]
Rogers-Dalhausser look to get back on track in Gstaad
Friday, July 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser set the bar incredibly high after their record-setting FIVB season of 2010, when they won nine tournaments.The local beach volleyball professionals picked up where they left off at the start of this season’s international tour, winning the first two tournaments and reaching the final in the third.The team then got hit with a big injury, the 6-9 Dalhausser spraining his left ankle during a second-round match at the Beijing Grand Slam. He finished out the … [Read more...]
Rogers-Dalhausser KO’d by defending world champs
Friday, June 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
In a clash of the last two world champions, top-seeded Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser came out on the losing end of a three-set Round of 16 match against Germany’s Jonas Reckermann and Julius Brink at the FIVB World Championships in Rome Friday night.The fourth-seeded Germans won 17-21, 21-19, 18-16, rallying from an 8-3 deficit in the third set.VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH TODD ROGERSRogers-Dalhausser finished ninth, their worst finish at the World Championships. They were seventh in … [Read more...]
Todd-Phil get Rosie-Gibb in FIVB Worlds main draw
Thursday, June 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser completed pool play at the FIVB World Championships of beach volleyball with a straight sets win over France’s Andy Ces and Kevin Cés and drew fellow Americans and rivals Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal for their first match in the single-elimination playoffs in Rome.Rogers-Dalhausser will square off against Gibb-Rosenthal on Friday in the round of 32.They have faced each other 55 times previously, with Rogers and Dalhausser winning 43.Both teams finished … [Read more...]
