Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stays in Brazil with Saquarema Challenge

SAQUAREMA, Brazil — There is much that will look the same this week on the Beach Pro Tour. This weekend’s Saquarema Challenge, which begins with Thursday’s qualifier, is held not far from last week’s in Recife — a few-hour flight to Rio de Janeiro, a two-hour drive to the sleepy surf-town that is Saquarema. The language is the same, the faces the same, the food the same delicious dose of acai and picanha.

The field, too, is mostly the same.

Key word: Mostly.

Absent from this...