Nov. 21, 2025: Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson’s run ended today at the 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship after a 1-2 (17-21, 21-18, 9-15) loss to Brazil’s Rebecca Cavalcante and Carol Solberg Salgado.

• Match stats here.

Up until today, Canada had a perfect record, not losing a set. "That’s the first third set we’ve had this tournament; we’ve been super consistent. So obviously the level was there back and forth. It was super intense with every point. We had some unforced errors, which comes from a little disorganization on our side I guess. Everything is under our control and they are all things that we can work on. And it’s totally within our realm of possibility to make sure that it doesn’t happen again,” said Wilkerson (Toronto, ON) of today's tie-break loss.

The Brazilians held Canada's Olympic silver medalists to only one block, compared with four on their side. They also held the advantage in attack points (38-31), while Canada had more aces (4-2).

Humana-Paredes, also of Toronto, said: "Our defense didn’t quite line up to what we planned for. They came out playing very strong, of course we expected that. We didn’t quite get the defensive plays when we needed them; which is pretty devastating because that was one of our strongest points all week. So it’s unfortunate that didn’t come through for us today in the match that matters, so we’ll have to look back on the video and see what went wrong there.

"Every time we play we take the lessons learned - we feel every emotion so heavy, the ups and downs, so It’s just going to make us better in the long run… there is always something we will take from these experiences towards the Olympics and everything in between."

Wilkerson echoed this sentiment: "We can be proud of ourselves; the year after the Olympics is tough and if you look at other medalists they’re injured or not here. And we’re here battling in the quarterfinals, deep into the season. That just shows how much work our team has been doing to stay strong and stay competitive. Of course we want more though."

This team finishes the Worlds with a fifth place rank.

Earlier in the week, Canada’s Monkhouse / Bélanger finished ranked 37th, while the Canadian men’s team (Schachter / Pickett) finished 17th.

The tournament continues in Adelaide, Australia, with the medal matches on Sunday, November 23.

Note: Local times listed are Australian Central Daylight Time, which is 15 and a half hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

VBTV offers worldwide coverage of all matches, and in Canada CBC Sports streams matches live as well.

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