Four of Final Six Win To Wrap Up #VNL Robin Play

  0 Wendy Mayer | June 14th, 2018 | Asian Volleyball, Brazilian Volleyball, European volleyball, FIVB Nations League - Women, International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball, South American Volleyball, U.S. Women's Volleyball

2018 FIVB Women’s Volleyball Nations League

With the Final Six field already set, Thursday’s results were about seeding, pride and final placement.

The United States sealed its spot atop the standings ledger with a sweep of Argentina to move to 13-2 with a field-best 40 points. As the last place team, Argentina must now participate in a playoff match with the Challenger Cup winners to fight to be a part of the 2019 VNL field. The Challenger Cup is set for June 20-24 in Lima, Peru.

Fellow members of the Final Six: Serbia, the Netherlands and Turkey all won to wrap up the round-robin action. Turkey is the only team that faced a fellow Final Six member, besting top ranked and host China in four sets.

The biggest result of the day saw a disappointed Italy wrap up its campaign with its eighth-straight win, a five-setter over Brazil. The loss dropped Brazil into third place in the standings, while the victory allowed the Italians to exit the competition having ended well, following a 2-5 start without stars Paola Egonu and Lucia Bosetti.

Russia also ended its campaign with an exclamation point, securing a five-set win over Japan, after trailing 2-1 in the match.

The Dominican Republic rebounded from a seven-match losing skid with a four-set win over Poland in its finale.

Top scorers on the day were Belgium’s Britt Herbots (23), Thailand’s Chatchu-On Moksri (20) and Italy’s Serena Ortolani (20).

Here’s a look at how the results shook out.

Pool 17 Recap

Pool 18 Recap 

Pool 19 Recap

Pool 20 Recap: Serbia Recap, USA Recap

 

Standings

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  United States 13 2 40 42 8 5.250 1227 997 1.231
2  Serbia 12 3 37 41 15 2.733 1324 1142 1.159
3  Brazil 12 3 35 40 20 2.000 1376 1229 1.120
4  Netherlands 12 3 34 39 18 2.167 1327 1176 1.128
5  Turkey 11 4 35 40 19 2.105 1351 1244 1.086
6  Italy 10 5 29 34 22 1.545 1230 1136 1.083
7  Russia 8 7 23 26 29 0.897 1194 1198 0.997
8  Poland 8 7 22 29 29 1.000 1298 1211 1.072
9  China 7 8 22 29 27 1.074 1237 1178 1.050
10  Japan 7 8 20 27 31 0.871 1209 1273 0.950
11  Germany 5 10 15 23 35 0.657 1220 1315 0.928
12  South Korea 5 10 14 16 34 0.471 1022 1141 0.896
13  Belgium 4 11 12 18 36 0.500 1115 1250 0.892
14  Dominican Republic 3 12 12 17 37 0.459 1072 1245 0.861
15  Thailand 2 13 7 17 41 0.415 1218 1355 0.899
16  Argentina 1 14 3 5 42 0.119 830 1161 0.715

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Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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