Thamela Coradello is the 2025 Women’s Beach Pro Tour Most Improved Player
Honorable Mention
- Victoria Lopes, Brazil
- Reka Orsi Toth, Italy
- Linda Bock, Germany
- Molly Shaw, USA
Nothing says more about the remarkably high level of play from Thamela Coradello in 2025 that she could win the Most Improved Player during a season in which she and Victoria Lopes entered as the No. 1 ranked team in the world.
There is, in a literal sense, no upward trajectory possible when you’re already No. 1 — yet Thamela found it, while, unbelievably, her world No. 1 partner, Victoria Lopes, was No. 2 in the voting. They entered this season on the backs of three straight medals in 2024 as they began their partnership, and it’s possible some were left wondering: Was this team for real, or was it a honeymoon phase?
A 13th-place finish to start the year in Quintana Roo made a case for the latter.
The rest of the season did not.
Thamela and Victoria rattled off five medals — two gold, two silver, one bronze — a fourth-place finish at the World Championships, and quadruple their previous career-highs for prize money. The 25-year-old blocker finished the year tied with Valentina Gottardi in sideout percent (64) while getting served double the amount of Victoria, outblocked her opponents 225-198, passed in system on 84 percent of her 1,743 passes, and limited her errors to the point that teams knew she would not beat herself — ever.
You had to go out and beat her — and Thamela made that an incredibly difficult task, as they finished 48-21 on the year.
And if she’s winning Most Improved during a season in which they accomplished all of that, there is no telling just how high her ceiling is.
2023 Most Improved Player: Valentina Gottardi
2024 Most Improved Player: Zoe Verge-Depre
