FIVB Championships: Turkey tops Peru, China avoids elimination
The Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Women's Volleyball World Championship’s second round started up on Tuesday after a one day break in the action. The top two teams from each pool will
advance to the semi-finals with a chance to play for the championship. The third and fourth place finishers will play for positions 5-8, and the fifth and sixth teams will play for 9-12. The bottom two teams from each pool will be eliminated from the tournament.
Peru vs Turkey Pool E
Turkey improved their record to 3-3, and kept Peru winless at 0-6 with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-20) victory on Tuesday. Peru cannot qualify for the third round, and will try to get their first win of the
second round against China on Wednesday. Turkey, currently in third place, cannot move into one of the top two spots, and will need to beat Poland to stay in third.
Neslihan Darnel continued the lead the tournament in scoring by adding 20 points to her total, the most for any Turkey player in this match. Karla Ortiz led Peru with eight points.
Peru stayed close to Turkey in the early stages of the second and third sets, but couldn’t manage a set win in either. Turkey beat Peru in blocks 10-6, and they out-spiked them 47-27.
“I think we played very well today because we prepared our tactics well,” said Neriman Ozsoy of Turkey. “Peru is a good team, but we were better on attack, blocking and everything. I'm happy we won 3-0,
it was a clear result for us.”
China vs Poland Pool E
China improved their record to 2-4 with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-18) win over Poland. The Chinese are currently in seventh place, but could advance with a win against Peru on Wednesday. Depending on the
scores, China could find themselves in fifth place, but they’ll need to improve their points differential ratio significantly to squeeze their way into fourth place, an unlikely feat. Poland will look to avoid elimination with a win against Turkey.
Malgorzata Glinka-Mogentale and Anna Werblinska led Poland with 17 points each, and Ma Yunwen led China with 14 points. The Chinese scoring was spread out well between most of the players on the court.
China lead the first set 21-14 at one point, but Poland stormed back, and trailed 23-21 late in the set. A good spike from Yimei Wang, and a miss by Katarzyna Gajgal gave China the first set win. From
there China played confidently, taking the match in straight sets.
“It was a very important game for China, but we played really well as a team,” said China’s coach, Yu Juemin. “Poland is a strong team. We watched the Poland-Russia game and it was played at a very high
level. But we had a day off and plenty of time to prepare for this game. We had a strategy of marking Glinka-Mogentale and Werblinska and that worked very well.”
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