The difficult year of Mäder and Vergé-Dépré

Joana Mäder doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to play again last year, but her partner Anouk Vergé-Dépré is in top form. How the best Swiss beach volleyball team manages this path.

Finally enjoying the game again: Joana Mäder (right) and Anouk Vergé-Dépré have had a tough year.

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For Anouk Vergé-Dépré, it feels like Joana Mäder’s shoulder is a little bit her own. The broken right shoulder of Vergé-Dépré’s beach volleyball partner, around which the past year has revolved.