Surabaya, Indonesia, July 23, 2024 – Iran’s first-hurdle clearance of their title defence, India’s unimaginable comeback for epic tie-break win and Saudi Arabia’s distinctive efficiency in hard-fought three-set thriller all highlighted action-packed Day 1 of the twenty second Asian Males’s U20 Volleyball Championship at Jawa Pos Area and Gelora Pancasila right here on Tuesday.
The twenty second version of the Asian Males’s U20 Championship, which serves because the Asia’s qualification match for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Males’s U21 World Championship, acquired underway on Tuesday, with a robust discipline of 16 groups showcasing their abilities in pool round-robin preliminaries in efforts of ending high two of their respective swimming pools to safe their slots in spherical of final 8 groups.
The topflight championship in Surabaya will qualify 4 groups excluding Iran for the following yr’s U21 World Championship. As present world champions, Iran have robotically certified.
Six out of eight matches contested on Tuesday noticed robust groups energy previous spirited opponents with straight-set sweeps. Chinese language Taipei beat Qatar 3-0, Saudi Arabia beat Australia 3-0, Iran beat China 3-0, hosts Indonesia beat Hong Kong, China 3-0, Japan beat Kuwait 3-0 and Korea beat Vietnam 3-0. Solely two matches turned out to be hotly-contested, with India beating Bangladesh 3-2 and Kazakhstan beating Thailand with the same margin 3-2.
At Jawa Pos Area (Principal Corridor), Chinese language Taipei, which completed a distant 14th place on the earlier version two years in the past in Riffa, Bahrain, registered their first Pool B win in Surabaya. Highly effective Jheng Wei-Jhih and Chang Hao-Po steered Chinese language Taipei to comfy straight-set 25-16, 25-13, 25-20 win towards Qatar, eleventh place in Riffa.
Exterior hitter Jheng Wei-Jhih chipped in 12 factors, all in assault, for Chinese language Taipei, whereas fellow outdoors hitter Chang Hao-Po and center blocker Chang Min-Quan added one other 10 and eight factors respectively. No Qatari participant reached double digits, with reverse Elzanary Badr scoring solely 9 factors on the group’s loss.
Chinese language Taipei will subsequent go up towards defending and seven-time champions Iran, whereas Qatar problem China on Wednesday.
In one other Pool B encounter on Tuesday, hefty Pouya Ariakhah, who stands 205cm tall and weighs 93kg, scored a match-high 22 factors to raise Iran’s hard-fought 3-0 (29-27, 25-21, 25-18) conquer the formidable Chinese language in 87 minutes.
Iran, powered by Armin Ghelichniazi, who gained the Greatest Center Blocker on the final yr’s FIVB Volleyball Males’s U19 World Championship in Argentina, and Seyed Morteza Tabatabaei, who landed the Greatest Libero on the afore-mentioned world meet, secured a unbelievable 3-0 win towards the previous four-time winners China to get their title defence marketing campaign off to a powerful begin.
Exhausting-attacking Pouya Ariakhah led the Iran’s scoring efforts on this robust match towards China. The 18-year-old reverse was unstoppable and have become the match’s high scorer with 22 factors from 16 kills, 2 blocks and team-leading 4 aces. Exterior hitter Seyed Matin Hosseini Tolouti and center blocker Taha Behboudnia contributed 16 and 9 factors respectively. China had three gamers who scored double digits, with outdoors hitter Zhang Zhiqiang chipping in 12 factors together with 8 kills from 21 makes an attempt, center blocker Shi Taier and outdoors hitter Zeng Yangjie including 11 and 10 factors respectively.
The Iran’s dominance was additionally seen within the match stats because the winners dominated in kills (41 to 34), blocks (13 to 7), in addition to benefiting from extra opponent errors (19 to 18). China acquired extra aces, prevailing in that class by 7 to six.
Iran will subsequent play Chinese language Taipei, with China taking over Qatar.
In Pool A, Saudi Arabia, Ninth place two years in the past, proved a reduce above Australia, which returned from Riffa two years in the past with the disappointing fifteenth place. With an impressive efficiency, the well-established Saudi Arabians struggled arduous to triumph in a hard-fought three-setter 25-23, 28-26, 25-23 in 80 minutes.
Rashad Abuelkhir delivered 16 factors from 14 kills, one block and one ace for Saudi Arabia, whereas the 208cm-tall center blocker Mitchell Croft scored 11 factors on the Australia’s loss.
Australia will subsequent tackle Hong Kong, China, whereas Saudi Arabia face off towards hosts Indonesia.
In one other Pool A conflict on Tuesday, the 196cm reverse Dawuda Alaihi, the Indonesia’s tallest participant, performed a giant a part of the hosts’ convincing 3-0 (25-10, 25-21, 25-14) win towards Hong Kong, China, producing 19 factors from 15 kills, 2 blocks and a couple of aces, whereas outdoors hitter Krisna and center blocker Darda Mulya saved good firm to contribute 12 and 11 factors respectively.
Lam Ho Wong led Hong Kong, China with 11 factors together with 9 kills from 35 makes an attempt.
At Gelora Pancasila (Second Corridor), former three-time winners Japan made a robust begin in Pool C following their distinctive straight-set 25-15, 25-14, 25-12 win towards unfancied Kuwait, which completed on the underside seventeenth place on the earlier version in Riffa, Bahrain.
Reverse Hiroki Bito was the Japan’s most efficient participant on this match as he scored 13 factors from 12 kills and one ace for the group, whereas no Kuwaiti participant reached double digits in scoring. Reverse Ali Dashti claimed 8 factors, all in assault, for Kuwait.
The Kuwaitis will subsequent go up towards India, with Japan enjoying Bangladesh.
India, which picked up silver on the earlier version to their title, went all the way down to the robust Bangladesh, a well-earned fifth place in Riffa, within the first two units 21-25, 21-25, however bounced again gallantly to win the stay three units 25-23, 25-15, 15-12 in exhausting 106 minutes.
Exterior hitter Kartik Sharma tallied 21 factors from 18 kills and three blocks for India, whereas reverse Aryan Baliyan and outdoors hitter Dhruvil Nayanbhai Patel added 17 and 14 factors respectively. Skipper and outdoors hitter Ratul scored a match-high 24 factors from 21 kills, one block and a couple of aces on the Bangladesh’s loss.
In Pool D, Kazakhstan, which didn’t take part within the earlier version two years in the past, had a see-saw battle towards Thailand to stun the fourth place in Riffa with epic tie-break win 25-23, 19-25, 19-25, 31-29, 15-9 in 109 minutes.
Thailand had been robust offensively with the likes of skipper Kittipong Sangsak, who landed the Greatest Exterior Hitter on the earlier version in Riffa, Bahrain, and the 206cm-tall reverse Christopher Arli Upakam, whereas Kazakhstan, whose peak common is 194cm towards the Thai counterparts’ 189cm, took the peak benefit of front-row assaults and stable blocking.
Reverse Klim Ryukhov, who stands 206cm tall, led the Kazakhstan’s offense with 21 factors from 20 kills and one block, whereas Christopher Arli Upakam scored 21 factors from 19 kills, 2 blocks and one ace on the Thailand’s beautiful loss.
Thailand will subsequent play Korea within the 2022 third-place playoff rematch, whereas Kazakhstan shall be pitted towards Vietnam.
Korea, strengthened by Lee Woo-Jin, who gained the Greatest Exterior Spiker on the final yr’s U19 World Championship in Argentina, the place the Koreans claimed bronze, on Tuesday pulled off a straight-set 25-22, 25-20, 25-17 win towards Vietnam.
Exterior hitter Yun Seojin delivered 16 factors from 15 kills and one block for Korea, whereas reverse Trinh Ngoc Dat scored a match-high 17 factors on the Vietnam’s loss.
The pool round-robin preliminaries proceed by Thursday as solely high two groups from every pool will after that advance to the spherical of final 8 groups. The remaining 8 lower-ranked sides shall be relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Sixteenth locations.
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