Isa City, Bahrain, June 5, 2024- In-form Philippines pulled off hard-fought win towards younger Indonesia to subsequent battle it out with Thailand, rising triumphant in one other encounter towards Chinese language Taipei, within the Ninth-Tenth playoff of the 2024 AVC Problem Cup for Males on the Isa Sports activities Metropolis Corridor C right here.
Contesting the Classification Spherical for Ninth-Twelfth locations on Wednesday, Philippines, which succumbed to 2 straight-set losses to mighty China and hosts Bahrain within the first two days, sealed their first win following their dramatic 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-14, 25-22) victory towards Indonesia, whereas Thailand additionally made their mark after 3-0 (25-17, 25-15, 25-20) demolition of younger Chinese language Taipei.
Within the first match, the Philippines, which misplaced in straight units to Indonesia within the gold-medal match of the 2019 Southeast Asian Video games on their house soil, carried out properly towards the Indonesia’s future stars, whose age common is eighteen years – the youngest reverse Nibras Fauzan coming in at 16 and the oldest center blocker Yoku Mega Yuri Pradana and reverse Fauzan Rama Fazza at simply 22.
Philippines, which completed Tenth on the earlier version in Chinese language Taipei final 12 months, and the younger Indonesians fought laborious within the see-saw battle, which noticed the previous, led by hard-hitting Marck Jesus Espejo and center blocker Kim Malabunga, take the hard-fought first set 25-23 and the latter regain their satisfaction to say the second set with the same margin 25-23 to degree it at 1-1.
Nevertheless, the Philippines got here out in full drive within the third set, which turned out to be one-way visitors. Taking a slender 16-14 lead, the Philippines confirmed no mercy to Indonesia, permitting the younger rivals no extra probability of preventing again towards them to attain 9 factors on the trot or the eventual 25-14 win on this snug set.
The fourth set was extra aggressive. The Philippines bounced again from trailing 8-10 to even it at 10-10 and went on their good present to steer with a two-point clear at 23-21. Jade Alex Disquitado fired a lethal assault to assist the Philippines attain the match level at 24-21.
An erratic serve from Espejo saved one other life for Indonesia. Nevertheless, their delight didn’t final lengthy as Angelo Nic Almendras hammered a robust assault to fully finish the younger Indonesians’ problem.
Within the second match, Thailand, reigning champions and seventh place on the 2023 FIVB Challenger Cup in Qatar, went all the way down to Kazakhstan in closely-contested 5 units in Pool B that put them out of title competition. Nevertheless, the Thai aspect revived their fortunes to seal essential win towards Chinese language Taipei, fielding a possible U20 squad to this match, on Wednesday.
Thailand rested veteran Kissada Nilsawai and Jakkrit Thanomnoi and as a substitute included Presort Pinkaew and Supakorn Jenthaisong within the beginning lineup, whereas formidable outdoors hitter Jheng Wei-Jhih led the Chinese language Taipei’s cost.
Thailand bought off to an ideal begin to lead 19-14 within the first set and stretched it to 23-17, courtesy of highly effective assaults and scintillating blocks from Anurak Phanram and Supakorn. The 22-year-old Supakorn, 190cm, fired an aggressive spike at hand Thailand the set level and shortly after that, a spike from Lin Ting-Wei went extensive, ensuing within the Southeast Asian aspect’s first set win 25-17.
Thailand continued their mixture assaults, good teamwork and well-placed serves within the second set, which they gained comfortably 25-15.
The third set noticed Chinese language Taipei and Thailand play neck and neck. As Anurak led the Thailand’s scoring efforts, Chinese language Taipei counter-attacked properly to degree it at 8-8. Nonetheless, with the larger expertise and kind, Thailand clawed their means again to take the lead with a four-point benefit at 24-19 after Anuchit Pakdeekaew hammered an overpass.
Pan Yi-Jung produced a lethal mid-court assault to save lots of one set level for Chinese language Taipei earlier than Thanathat Thaweerat put the icing on the victory cake for Thailand with a swift quick spike 25-20.
Anurak Phanram scored a match-high 19 factors from 16 kills and three blocks for Thailand, whereas fellow outdoors hitter Supakorn Jenthaisong contributed 11 factors together with 8 kills. Jheng Wei-Jhih led Chinese language Taipei with 12 factors together with 10 kills from 25 makes an attempt.
Thailand and Philippines will battle it out within the Ninth-Tenth playoff match, with Indonesia taking up Chinese language Taipei for the eleventh place.
In the meantime, the match has reached a crescendo on Thursday as high two groups from every pool will battle it out within the the highly-anticipated quarterfinals. Solely the profitable groups on this essential part will advance to the semifinals, with the losers relegated to Classification Spherical for Fifth-Eighth locations.
World No.21 Qatar, which picked up silver medal on the 2023 FIVB Challenger Cup to their title, will problem China, the 2022 AVC Cup winners in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand and silver medallists on the rescheduled Hangzhou Asian Video games final 12 months. The world No.31 had been relegated from final 12 months’s VNL by advantage of being the bottom-ranked nation within the 16-team area and are looking for their means again to the world-class competitors.
The opposite three quarterfinal encounters see world No.54 Kazakhstan go up towards world No.34 Australia, world No.49 Pakistan tackle world No.53 Vietnam, the one Southeast Asian aspect in competition for the title, and world No. 66 Bahrain, silver medallists on the earlier version, problem world No.27 Korea.
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