Broke up Puerto Rico and stayed alive for qualifying for Greece

Her first victory at the World Championship was won by the Women’s National Volleyballleveling with 3-1 (25-19, 25-13, 23-25, 25-14) Puerto Rico in Thailand.

Greece, which smiled for the first time (after defeat powerful Brazil at the premiere) he was thus kept alive in the battle that gives the next round of the event.

Her Tuesday will fight against France Aiming to win, to qualify for the next phase, but of course her work will not be easy.

His team Apostol He was excellent in almost the whole race, as with the exception of the third set, which he lost 25-23, he dominated his opponent.

Having the excellent service as a “weapon” showed from the beginning in Puerto Rico, who is the boss, escaping 10-6 initially, and then he was even at +8 (17-9) and +9 (22-13). Greece relaxed a bit and saw the opponent reduce to 23-17, but was not anxious.

However, this… bell seems to have been alert for the sequel, as in the 2nd set he escaped 5-1 from the beginning and then leveled Puerto Rico (14-6, 20-9), with the attack working harmoniously reaching the final 25-13.

Puerto Rico was able to react to the third set, which was the most closed of all, with the exception of 14-18, which was found to be in favor of the opposing team. Greece was rebuilt in the next set and with an excellent block “cleaned” the match.

The sets: 25-19, 25-13, 23-25, 25-14

Fluctuation:

1st set: 8-5, 16-9, 21-11, 25-19

2nd set: 8-4, 16-6, 21-11, 21-13

3rd set: 7-8, 13-16, 19-21, 23-25

4th set: 6-8, 16-11, 21-13, 25-14

*Greece’s points came from 7 aces, 57 attacks, 9 blocks and 25 opponents’ errors and Puerto Rico came from 1 ace, 41 attacks, 6 blocks and 23 opponent errors.

The sets: 3-1 (25-19, 25-13, 23-25, 25-14) in 97;

GREECE (Apostle Economou): Tondai 9 (6/9 et seq., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Konstantinidou 1 (0/2 et seq., 1 block), Strantzalis 14 (12/34 et seq. (9/12 et seq., 1 ace, 1 block), Anthouli 26 (22/45 et seq.

PUERTO RIKO (Juan Carlos Nunieth): Rivera 2 (1/4 ep. (13/33 ep.