WATCH All of the Group 1, Day 2 Videos from the FIVB World Grand Prix

  0 Braden Keith | July 08th, 2017 | Asian Volleyball, Brazilian Volleyball, European volleyball, FIVB World Grand Prix, International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball, South American Volleyball, U.S. Women's Volleyball

2017 FIVB VOLLEYBALL WORLD GRAND PRIX – GROUP 2 DAILY RECAP

  • Group 2
  • July 7th – August 6th
  • FIVB World Grand Prix Round 1
  • Schedule/Results

In the biggest match on the 2nd day of competition in the 2017 FIVB Grand Prix, the defending Olympic silver medalists from Brazil rocked the defending Grand Prix champions 3-0 in Ankara. Brazil didn’t score more than 20 points in any of the 3 sets in spite of landing a respectable 41% of their shots.

The early results have Serbia as the new favorites in the tournament, and that’s validated by their spot at the top of the table thus far.

Not far behind them is the Netherlands, who like Serbia have a pair of 3-0 sweeps on their record so far, adding a win over Thailand to their victory against the Dominican Republic on Friday. They’ll be heavy favorites to win again against Japan on Sunday.

A few negative trends are also developing. China has played their superstar Zhu Ting sparingly, with officials citing general fatigue from a long season of playing after a long Olympic summer last year. In both of their matches so far, China has brought in Zhu late with their backs against the wall, and she’s bailed them out. On Saturday, that came in the form of 12 points in just a set-and-a-half played.

China used all 14 players in their 3-2 win over Russia. That win also exposed a distraught trend for Russia. On two consecutive days, they’ve held 2-1 leads only to get beat in 5. That happened on Friday against the United States and again on Saturday against China. While those are two of the best teams in the world, neither is at anything near full-strength this week: The U.S. has just 2 Olympians on their roster, while China has slow-played Zhu.

Both teams should still be on track for the Final 6, but both are in danger of given away that fate if they can’t reverse those outcomes.

Group 1 Table After Day 2:

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Serbia 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 150 109 1.376
2  Netherlands 2 0 6 6 0 MAX 151 121 1.248
3  United States 2 0 5 6 2 3.000 187 160 1.169
4  China 2 0 5 6 3 2.000 193 199 0.970
5  Brazil 1 1 3 3 3 1.000 133 138 0.964
6  Dominican Republic 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 164 167 0.982
7  Turkey 1 1 3 3 4 0.750 149 156 0.955
8  Japan 1 1 2 4 5 0.800 197 195 1.010
9  Russia 0 2 2 4 6 0.667 209 220 0.950
10  Thailand 0 2 1 2 6 0.333 152 181 0.840
11  Italy 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 150 170 0.882
12  Belgium 0 2 0 1 6 0.167 144 173 0.832

Ranking system:

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
  • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
  • Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Day 1 & 2 Results (With Links to Full Stats):

Pool A1

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul 16:30 Turkey  0–3  Serbia 19–25 17–25 15–25 51–75 P2P3
7 Jul 19:30 Belgium  0–3  Brazil 22–25 23–25 18–25 63–75 P2P3
8 Jul 16:30 Brazil  0–3  Serbia 19–25 20–25 19–25 58–75 P2P3
8 Jul 19:30 Turkey  3–1  Belgium 23–25 25–20 25–20 25–16 98–81 P2P3

Pool B1

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul 15:00 United States  3–2  Russia 22–25 25–19 25–27 25–16 15–11 112–98 P2P3
7 Jul 19:00 China  3–1  Italy 25–20 20–25 25–23 25–20 95–88 P2P3
8 Jul 15:00 Italy  0–3  United States 21–25 22–25 19–25 62–75 P2P3
8 Jul 19:00 China  3–2  Russia 24–26 25–21 16–25 27–25 16–14 108–111 P2P3

Pool C1

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
7 Jul 17:30 Netherlands  3–0  Dominican Republic 25–21 25–19 25–21 75–61 P2P3
7 Jul 20:30 Japan  3–2  Thailand 25–19 18–25 25–14 22–25 15–9 105–92 P2P3
8 Jul 17:30 Netherlands  3–0  Thailand 25–20 26–24 25–16 76–60 P2P3
8 Jul 20:30 Dominican Republic  3–1  Japan 25–20 25–19 24–26 29–27 103–92 P2P3

Videos

Serbia def. Brazil 3-0

Turkey def. Belgium 3-1

United States def. Italy 3-0

China def. Russia 3-2

Netherlands def. Thailand 3-0

Dominican Republic def. Japan 3-1

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