Eleni-Ioanna Kerlidi has had a busy year, balancing between beach and indoor handball. With her club, A.C. PAOK, she claimed the double crown in domestic competitions and reached the quarter-finals of the EHF European Cup Women. She helped qualify the Greek women’s indoor handball team for their first EHF EURO in history. And now, her focus is back on the sand as she is eyeing up a medal at the 2026 IHF Women's Beach Handball World Championship in Zagreb, which has just begun.