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After 2 years of being restricted by the pandemic, competitive international volleyball has finally returned. Not that there weren’t any tournaments at all last year, but this year was simply when the floodgates of action has opened up once again. And the Volleyball Nations League in Ankara was where the excitement resumed. Tournament MVP Paola Egonu of Italy may have had her hands full if…

#FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championships 2018: Round 2 and the Thai-USA R1 match

So, it’s now Round 2 of this 3-week long World Championships in women’s volleyball with competing teams now down to 16 and just divided into two groups.

October 7 Results: Serbia d. Mexico, 3-0; Germany d. Brazil, 3-2; Netherlands d. Puerto Rico, 3-0; Japan d. Dominican Republic, 3-2; Russia d. Turkey, 3-0; USA d. Bulgaria, 3-0; Italy d. Azerbaijan, 3-0; China d. Thailand, 3-0.

From the looks of…

#FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championships 2018: Group C and How To Win when you’re up 2-0

Group C is composed of Russia, the USA, Trinidad and Tobago, South Korea, Azerbaijan and Thailand. In case you missed the title, we’re talking about the ongoing World Championships in Japan.

Kidding aside, after four matches, we find the Russians and the Americans leading the pack to nobody’s surprise. What could surprise many volleyball pundits and fans though is that Thailand is closely behind…

#FIVB AVC Cup 2018: Japan vs China finale (Sep 22, Attack Point)

It’s Japan against China for the title at the 2018 AVC Cup this Sunday, September 23 as the Japanese outdueled Chinese Taipei, 3-1 while the Chinese nipped the Thais, 3-2 in a pair of exciting semifinal matches.

The Taiwanese really tried to put up a fight in the first semifinal game as they fought harder from the second set onwards but just could not handle Japan’s developmental squad and so…

AVC Cup 2018: Updates and Schedules (Sep 20, Scoring Pattern Hints)

The quarterfinals of the 2018 AVC Cup saw expected results save for Chinese Taipei upsetting South Korea, 3-1 as Japan beat Vietnam, 3-1; China demolishing Iran, 3-0; and a relaxed Thailand blanking Australia, 3-0.

Well, seems like this tournament’s championship match would be the semifinal between Thailand and China as whoever wins between Japan and Chinese Taipei in the other semifinal match…

#AsianGames: It’s Thailand v China – Women’s Volleyball Final

In both semifinal matches, Thailand v South Korea and Japan v China, we were expecting in-game adjustments especially from the ones who were trailing; for if you are an underdog, you would naturally have made fixes even before the game started – so what happened?

At the end of the matches, we saw both surprising and expected results. An ailing Thai squad beat the favored South Korean team (25-15,…

#AsianGames: Women’s Volleyball Quarterfinals

As expected, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and China all advanced to the quarterfinals after sweeping their foes with relative ease in the 2018 Asian Games women’s volleyball competition.

And for this edition, let’s briefly get into the keys and issues of the teams.

Thailand d. Vietnam  (25-23, 25-16, 25-20)

Among the four quarterfinal matches, this game between the Thais and the Vietnamese was…