FIVB World Tour Qatar Open organized by the Qatar Volleyball Association (QVBA) will begin at Al Gharafa Arena on Sunday.
Top pair of Cherif Younousse and Jefferson Pereira will lead the host nation’s charge in event.
Cherif and Pereira have been in good form of late. They won the inaugural FIVB Kish Island Open in Iran last month, beating Russia’s Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin 21-13, 14-21, 15-12 in the final.
The duo also reached the quarterfinal of the Asian Volleyball Confederation’s Sydney Open, last week, where they lost 16-21, 14-21 to Australia’s Bo Soderberg and Cole Durant.
The Qatar Open is part of the Road to Rio that lasts until June 13, with FIVB World Tour events counting towards the Olympic ranking in order to determine 15 of the 24 teams that will take part in the Olympics.