Antonio Saucedo misses the first months of the 2026 season beach volleyball. An injury that will keep him away from the arena during the first tournaments of the year in the VW Beach Pro Tour 2026 leaving Spain without its second best couple on the circuitwhich he formed with Álvaro Viera. Both had managed to place themselves among the 100 best couples in the world in this discipline.
His knee asks him to stop: a necessary operation to return to his best level
The injury occurred at the end of last season during one of his training sessions before a tournament. The player noticed some discomfort in his knee that forced him to stop and undergo some tests that ended up determining that he suffered from a cartilage detachment which forced him to undergo surgery, but not before having to stop his activity and wait for the inflammation of the affected part to subside so that the national team doctor could perform the operation. Fernando Ávila.
“It is not the beginning of the season that I imagined but it is what I have to experience. Tomorrow begins a hard path, of invisible work that will surely make me stronger. Mentalized and prepared for what's coming!“, thus the player himself informed his followers about what was going to happen a few hours later. A long road that It will keep you away from the sand for five to six months.a recovery period that will begin from the completion of the operation that took place this Tuesday, January 13 at the Viamed Fatima in Seville.
Antonio Saucedo and Álvaro Viera in one of the matches of the Group Stage of the Nations Cup 2025 held at the Puerta de Hierro Sports Park in Madrid
A dream 2025 to be in the Top100 in the World
Antonio Saucedo's season, along with his teammate Álvaro Viera, began with the National Beach Volleyball Circuit. A silver medal in the first three-star tournament of the year in Madrid that was just the harbinger of what awaited them. A leap they took Beach Pro Tour in it Valencia Futures reaching the quarterfinals and a round of 16 in the Madrid Futuresbut that his best result did not come until Malmo and Montpellier Futures with bronze medals.
A season where they received the prize of representing Spain in the beach volleyball national team cup, the Nations Cup, and that They reached the semi-finals where the Norway of Anders Mol/Sorum and Hendrik Mol/Berntsen It was the one that left them out of the competition at the gates of the final. A season that left them in a creditable 83rd position in the FIVB ranking with a total of 1916 points and that now he will have to wait to return to the maximum competition.
