Serbia’s Lazovic Leads All Scorers on U20 Opening Weekend

  0 Wendy Mayer | July 18th, 2017 | Asian Volleyball, European volleyball, International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball

2017 FIVB VOLLEYBALL U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – WOMEN

The first week of play at the U20 World Championships wrapped up on Sunday.

Russia won Pool A with a perfect 3-0 mark, China topped Pool B on points after three teams posted a 2-1 record, Brazil went 3-0 to win Pool C , and Japan ran the table in Pool D. Joining those four teams in the top eight are: Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey and the United States.

How did individual players do? Let’s take a look back at the statistical leaders after three matches.

Serbia’s Katarina Lazovic was the top scorer with 63 points, including a tournament best 53 kills, five blocks and five aces. Cuba’s Heidy Casanova Alvarez (61), Poland’s Natalia Murek (58), China’s Han Wu (56) and Hanyu Yang (48) and Turkey’s Tugba Senoglu (48) rounded out the top five spots.

Yang was the top spiker of the weekend with a 64.29 percent success rate. She downed 36 kills with just three errors in 56 attempts. Casanova followed with a 49.04 percent success rate, tallying 51 kills with 14 errors in 104 swings.

Turkey’s Zehra Gunes put up 20 blocks, an average of 1.33 per set, both of which were tournament highs. Italy’s Giulia Maria Mancini (1.27), Dominican Republic’s Geraldina Stefany Gonzalez (1.27) and Yang (1.00) also managed more than a block per set.

The top server of opening weekend in terms of aces per set was Mexico’s Uxue Amaya Guereca Parra, who managed 0.78 per stanza. Bulgaria’s Emileta Racheva followed with 0.71 aces per set. Senoglu served up nine aces, the most by any player.

The best defender was Japan’s Miiku Iwasawa, who managed 6.36 digs per set. Turkey’s Eylul Akarcesme pulled up 84 digs, most of any player, for an average of 5.60 digs per set.

The top players on serve receive was Brazil’s Karina Barbosa De Souza, who made good on 51.95 percent of her chances, with 45 excellents and just five faults in 77 attempts. The United States’ Elizabeth Thayer Hall followed at 51.81 percent efficiency with 48 excellents and five faults in 83 chances.

Top Scorers

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Spike Block Serve Total
1 2 Lazovic Katarina SRB 53 5 5 63
2 17 Casanova Alvarez Heidy CUB 51 8 2 61
3 9 Murek Natalia POL 51 4 3 58
4 12 Wu Han CHN 48 2 6 56
5 2 Yang Hanyu CHN 36 11 1 48
2 Senoglu Tugba TUR 34 5 9 48
7 4 Peralta Luna Vielka Michelle DOM 38 7 1 46
8 1 Enweonwu Nkemdilim Ruth Terry ITA 39 2 2 43
9 Tosi Anahi Florencia ARG 34 6 3 43
18 Gunes Zehra TUR 19 20 4 43

 

Top Spikers

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Spike Block Serve Total
1 2 Lazovic Katarina SRB 53 5 5 63
2 17 Casanova Alvarez Heidy CUB 51 8 2 61
3 9 Murek Natalia POL 51 4 3 58
4 12 Wu Han CHN 48 2 6 56
5 2 Yang Hanyu CHN 36 11 1 48
2 Senoglu Tugba TUR 34 5 9 48
7 4 Peralta Luna Vielka Michelle DOM 38 7 1 46
8 1 Enweonwu Nkemdilim Ruth Terry ITA 39 2 2 43
9 Tosi Anahi Florencia ARG 34 6 3 43
18 Gunes Zehra TUR 19 20 4 43

Top Blockers

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Stuff
Blocks		 Faults Rebounds Total
Atts		 Avg.
by set
1 18 Gunes Zehra TUR 20 14 30 64 1.33
2 11 Mancini Giulia Maria ITA 14 5 16 35 1.27
3 11 Gonzalez Geraldine Sthefany DOM 14 21 24 59 1.27
4 2 Yang Hanyu CHN 11 14 17 42 1.00
5 19 Racheva Emileta BUL 6 8 13 27 0.86
6 2 Duarte Alecrim Diana BRA 11 12 11 34 0.85
7 14 Beltramino Agostina Sol ARG 9 9 14 32 0.82
8 17 Flores Gamez Karina Angelica MEX 7 13 12 32 0.78
9 13 Swirad Martyna POL 10 16 15 41 0.71
10 2 Saykova Borislava BUL 5 13 8 26 0.71

Top Servers

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Aces Faults Serve
Hits		 Total
Atts		 Avg.
by set
1 1 Guereca Parra Uxue Amaya MEX 7 2 26 35 0.78
2 19 Racheva Emileta BUL 5 4 16 25 0.71
3 11 Iosia Norene USA 8 2 30 40 0.67
4 16 Vorobyeva Maria RUS 7 4 27 38 0.64
5 12 Barbosa De Souza Karina BRA 8 4 72 84 0.62
6 2 Senoglu Tugba TUR 9 11 31 51 0.60
7 5 Milanova Aleksandra BUL 4 2 17 23 0.57
8 6 Yamaguchi Shuri JPN 6 3 36 45 0.55
9 12 Wu Han CHN 6 10 37 53 0.55
10 12 Cese Montalvo Ailama CUB 7 5 41 53 0.54

Top Setters

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Running
Sets		 Faults Still
Sets		 Total
Atts		 Avg.
by set
1 3 Matsui Tamaki JPN 97 3 133 233 8.82
2 11 Moreno Borrero Gretell Elena CUB 109 3 150 262 8.38
3 10 Veselinovic Andjela SRB 109 2 145 256 7.79
4 5 Cai Yaqian CHN 70 5 169 244 6.36
5 7 Benitez Azul ARG 67 5 187 259 6.09
6 2 Boldini Jenninfer ITA 63 4 129 196 5.73
7 10 Grabka Alicja POL 77 130 207 5.50
8 13 Gulubay Buket TUR 82 5 148 235 5.47
9 13 Moreno Figueiredo Dos Jackeline BRA 71 122 193 5.46
10 11 Iosia Norene USA 63 3 93 159 5.25

Top Defenders

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Digs Faults Receptions Total
Atts		 Avg.
by set
1 12 Iwasawa Miiku JPN 70 24 7 101 6.36
2 22 Akarcesme Eylül TUR 84 29 1 114 5.60
3 16 Djurdjevic Sanja SRB 75 33 4 112 5.36
4 6 Alexandre Costa Nyeme Victória BRA 69 19 8 96 5.31
5 2 Tamayo Canton Lianny CUB 67 29 6 102 5.15
6 6 Zannoni Giorgia ITA 55 14 1 70 5.00
7 1 Gonzalez Valentina Andrea ARG 51 31 4 86 4.64
8 15 Villegas Besna PER 37 20 53 110 3.70
9 7 Pietrini Elena ITA 35 21 2 58 3.18
10 1 Kurogo Ai JPN 34 14 4 52 3.09

Top Receivers

Rank Shirt Name Pos. Team Excellents Faults Serve
Receptions		 Total
Atts		 Eff. %
1 12 Barbosa De Souza Karina BRA 45 5 27 77 51.95
2 3 Hall Elizabeth Thayer USA 48 5 30 83 51.81
3 12 Iwasawa Miiku JPN 33 4 20 57 50.88
4 16 Djurdjevic Sanja SRB 57 10 28 95 49.47
5 2 Lazovic Katarina SRB 56 10 30 96 47.92
6 6 Sahin Saliha TUR 55 7 40 102 47.06
7 16 Stenzel Maria POL 40 4 33 77 46.75
8 2 Tamayo Canton Lianny CUB 44 7 29 80 46.25
9 2 Senoglu Tugba TUR 39 3 36 78 46.15
10 1 Gonzalez Valentina Andrea ARG 35 6 23 64 45.31

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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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