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2017 FIVB WORLD LEAGUE – Round 2, DAY 1 SUMMARY

June 2nd-July 8th, 2017
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Group 1 Table After Day 4:

		Matches		Pts	Sets			Points
Rank	Team	W	L	Pts	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	France	4	0	12	12	2	6.000	346	279	1.240
2	Brazil	3	1	10	11	6	1.833	386	367	1.052
3	Serbia	3	1	9	9	5	1.800	329	311	1.058
4	Belgium	2	2	8	10	7	1.429	385	370	1.041
5	Poland	2	2	6	9	9	1.000	396	381	1.039
6	Bulgaria	2	2	5	8	10	0.800	375	396	0.947
7	Iran	2	2	5	7	9	0.778	359	365	0.984
8	Canada	2	2	4	8	10	0.800	393	405	0.970
9	Russia	1	3	4	7	9	0.778	340	351	0.969
10	United States	1	3	4	7	9	0.778	352	372	0.946
11	Italy	1	3	3	5	9	0.556	311	330	0.942
12	Argentina	1	3	2	3	11	0.273	289	334	0.865

Ranking system:

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
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

A surprising French team, who is playing this year’s World League without their best offensive weapon Earvin Ngapeth, remained undefeated on Friday to open the second of three weekends of play, beating Russia 3-1. Each of France’s 4 wins so far in the tournament has been by a 3-0 or 3-1 margin, leaving them with the maximum 12 points thus far.

France now moves forward to play an Italian team that is suddenly floundering, with only 1 win in their first 4. Italy has an Olympic pedigree, but are playing without a significant portion of the roster that won them silver last year. The two teams actually have 2 more matchups, one this weekend and one next in Belgium. France is 2 wins away from sealing a spot in the Final 6 (they have games against Italy, the US, Italy, Canada, and Belgium). Italy already needs to be almost-perfect to claw back in to that final 6, so they’ll have their backs against the wall.

Serbia got back on track with a 3-0 sweep of Argentina, but their weekend gets tougher with matches against Argentina on Saturday and Belgium on Sunday. With both of those opponents at, or close, to Final 6 promotions themselves, the wins become even more significant for Serbia to seal their chance to defend their title in Brazil.

The Brazilians, after a slow start to the tournament, are back to looking like the Olympic champions they are. Even with pressure off thanks to an automatic bid to the finals, Brazil has stuck mostly to their superstars and came away on Saturday with a 3-1 win over Canada. That brings them in 2nd position back to a rematch with the defending World Champions, Poland, who beat Brazil in the tournament opener last weekend 3-2 – the only team to have beat Brazil so far in this year’s World League.

The biggest match remaining this weekend, now, will be Sunday’s matchup between Belgium and Serbia, who rank 4th and 3rd in the Group 1 table after Friday’s matches.

Day 4 Results (With Links to Full Stats)

Pool D1:

Venue: Azadi Indoor Stadium, Tehran, Iran
All times are Iran Daylight Time (UTC+04:30).

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Jun	18:10	Serbia	3–0	Argentina	25–18	25–22	25–23			75–63	P2 P3
9 Jun	21:10	Iran	3–2	Belgium	23–25	25–17	25–22	23–25	15–12	111–101	P2 P3

Pool E1:

Venue: Palace of Culture and Sports, Varna, Bulgaria
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Jun	16:10	Canada	1–3	Brazil	25–23	20–25	22–25	23–25		90–98	P2 P3
9 Jun	19:10	Bulgaria	3–2	Poland	25–16	20–25	19–25	25–23	16–14	105–103	P2 P3

Pool F1:

Venue: Palais des Sports de Pau, Pau, France
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Jun	17:30	Italy	0–3	United States	22–25	23–25	23–25			68–75	P2 P3
9 Jun	20:30	France	3–1	Russia	25–12	22–25	25–21	25–18		97–76	P2 P3