Italy's Egonu Leads All Scorers Heading into #FIVBWomensWCH Final Six

The star of the show thus far in the World Championships has been Italy’s Paola Egonu. The 19-year old has notched 182 total points (150 kills, 17 bocks, 15 aces). She has downed double-digit scoring tallies in all nine of the team’s matches, including 29 twice and 33 in the Round 2 finale against the United States.

vs. Bulgaria (17)
vs. Canada (18)
vs. Cuba (15)
vs. Turkey (15)
vs. China (29)
vs. Azerbaijan (11)
vs. Thailand (15)
vs. Russia (29)
vs. USA (33)

Fellow members of the Final Six among the top 10 scorers are the Netherlands’ Lonneke Sloetjes (3rd, 174), China’s Zhu Ting (7th, 147) and Japan’s Sarina Koga (9th, 133).

The top three most efficient hitters are still in the competition with Serbia’s Tijana Boskovic leading the way at 56.74 success rate. Boskovic missed the team’s last two matches with an abdominal injury. Italy’s Miryam Sylla and Sloetjes follow, each hitting over 50 percent. Boskovic’s teammate Brankica Mihajlovic and China’s Xiangyu Gong also rank among the tournament’s best spikers, making good on more than 48 percent of their attempts.

Italy, the lone team to make it through the first two round undefeated (9-0), also boasts two of the competition’s top six blockers in Anna Danesi (1st, 0.90 stuffs per set) and Cristina Chirichella (6th, 0.77). Serbia’s Milena Rasic (4th, 0.82) and China’s Yan Ni (5th, 0.80) also are among the Final Six.

Azerbaijan’s Polina Rahimova the top server in the competition through two rounds, racking up 20 aces (0.67 per set). The Netherlands is among the competition’s top serving teams, with Sloetjes (3rd, 0.59 aces per set) and Juliet Lohuis (7th, 0.44) leading the way. Egonu has served up 0.50 aces per set, ranking fifth among all players, while China’s Xinyue Yuan (8th, 0.43) also is among the top 10 through two rounds.

Puerto Rico’s Natalia Valentin handed out 6.86 assists per set as the team went 3-6 in the first two rounds. Italy’s Ofelia Malinov is the competition’s top remaining setter, dishing out 6.23 assists per set. China’s Ding Xia, the Netherland’s Laura Dijkema follow at fifth and eighth.

The top digger in the first two rounds was Puerto Rico’s Shara Venegas, who notched 4.30 digs per set. Three of the top 10 diggers in the competition are left in Italy’s Monica De Gennaro (4th, 3.33 per set), Serbia’s Silvija Popovic (6th, 3.11) and the United States’ Kelsey Robinson (8th, 2.85).

Japan’s Mako Kobata has guided her team with a 46.36 efficiency on serve reception. Robinson (34d, 43.38) and Gennaro (7th, 36.69) will also be moving on to the Final Six.

Best Scorers

Rank	Name	Team	Spikes	Blocks	Serves	Total
1	Paola Ogechi Egonu	ITA	150	17	15	182
2	Louisa Lippmann	GER	149	12	18	179
3	Lonneke Slöetjes	NED	146	9	19	174
4	Tandara Caixeta	BRA	142	17	6	165
5	Andrea Rangel	MEX	143	6	4	153
6	Polina Rahimova	AZE	123	8	20	151
7	Ting Zhu	CHN	130	11	6	147
8	Kseniia Parubets	RUS	127	6	6	139
9	Sarina Koga	JPN	122	7	4	133
10	Irina Voronkova	RUS	110	6	12	128

Best Spikers

Rank	Name	Team	Spikes	Faults	Shots	Total attempts	Success %
1	Tijana Boškovic	SRB	80	22	39	141	56.74
2	Miryam Fatime Sylla	ITA	96	9	71	176	54.55
3	Lonneke Slöetjes	NED	146	36	98	280	52.14
4	Polina Rahimova	AZE	123	33	84	240	51.25
5	Nataliya Goncharova	RUS	111	19	90	220	50.45
6	Yonkaira Paola Peña Isabel	DOM	79	23	56	158	50
7	Paola Ogechi Egonu	ITA	150	35	120	305	49.18
8	Brankica Mihajlovic	SRB	85	22	67	174	48.85
9	Xiangyu Gong	CHN	85	7	83	175	48.57
10	Tandara Caixeta	BRA	142	44	110	296	47.97

Best Blockers

Rank	Name	Team	Stuff Blocks	Faults	Rebounds	Total Attempts	Average Per Set
1	Anna Danesi	ITA	27	9	81	117	0.9
2	Irina Fetisova	RUS	30	8	45	83	0.88
3	Irina Koroleva	RUS	28	12	56	96	0.82
4	Milena Rasic	SRB	23	15	39	77	0.82
5	Ni Yan	CHN	24	1	70	95	0.8
6	Cristina Chirichella	ITA	23	6	63	92	0.77
7	Lisvel Elisa Eve Mejia	DOM	22	14	31	67	0.76
8	Hristina Ruseva	BUL	24	18	58	100	0.75
9	Ana Beatriz Correa	BRA	25	24	60	109	0.74
10	Zehra Gunes	TUR	22	7	60	89	0.73

Best Servers

Rank	Name	Team	Aces	Faults	Hits	Total attempts	Average per set
1	Polina Rahimova	AZE	20	15	57	92	0.67
2	Samantha Bricio	MEX	19	29	64	112	0.63
3	Lonneke Slöetjes	NED	19	20	59	98	0.59
4	Louisa Lippmann	GER	18	18	95	131	0.57
5	Paola Ogechi Egonu	ITA	15	28	84	127	0.5
6	Nasya Dimitrova	BUL	14	14	87	115	0.44
7	Juliet Lohuis	NED	14	7	77	98	0.44
8	Xinyue Yuan	CHN	13	5	107	125	0.43
9	Eda Erdem Dündar	TUR	13	11	80	104	0.43
10	Meliha Ismailoglu	TUR	12	14	94	120	0.4

Best Setters

Rank	Name	Team	Running sets	Faults	Still sets	Total attempts	Average per set
1	Natalia Valentin	PUR	199	5	517	721	6.86
2	Niverka Dharlenis Marte Frica	DOM	188	6	465	659	6.48
3	Ofelia Malinov	ITA	187	4	439	630	6.23
4	Denise Hanke	GER	181	10	669	860	5.84
5	Xia Ding	CHN	171	6	446	623	5.7
6	Sanay Sashiko	MEX	149	9	626	784	4.97
7	Lora Kitipova	BUL	156	7	589	752	4.88
8	Laura Dijkema	NED	145	3	423	571	4.53
9	Cansu Ozbay	TUR	125	7	492	624	4.17
10	Danielle Lins	BRA	138	2	151	291	4.05

Best Diggers

Rank	Name	Team	Digs	Faults	Receptions	Total attempts	Average per set
1	Shara Venegas	PUR	125	8	19	152	4.3
2	Brenda Castillo	DOM	103	10	15	128	3.55
3	Iuliia Karimova	AZE	102	8	20	130	3.4
4	Monica De Gennaro	ITA	100	12	25	137	3.33
5	Lenka Dürr	GER	101	1	20	122	3.26
6	Silvija Popovic	SRB	87	6	23	116	3.11
7	Alla Galkina	RUS	100	11	20	131	2.94
8	Kelsey Robinson	USA	94	13	13	120	2.85
9	Suelen Pinto	BRA	96	4	25	125	2.82
10	Zhana Todorova	BUL	88	21	32	141	2.75

Best Receivers

Rank	Name	Team	Excellents	Faults	Serve receptions	Total attempts	Efficiency %
1	Mako Kobata	JPN	77	7	67	151	46.36
2	Jennifer Geerties	GER	95	7	100	202	43.56
3	Kelsey Robinson	USA	64	5	67	136	43.38
4	Simge Sebnem Akoz	TUR	74	7	81	162	41.36
5	Piyanut Pannoy	THA	85	11	93	189	39.15
6	Lenka Dürr	GER	75	8	95	178	37.64
7	Monica De Gennaro	ITA	54	3	82	139	36.69
8	Malika Kanthong	THA	80	9	121	210	33.81
9	Gabriela Braga Guimaraes	BRA	47	6	69	122	33.61
10	Irina Voronkova	RUS	99	17	137	253	32.4

Italy’s Egonu Leads All Scorers Heading into #FIVBWomensWCH Final Six

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