Surabaya, Indonesia, July 24, 2024 – Hosts Indonesia, title-hotshots Iran, Japan, India, Korea and Kazakhstan earned back-to-back wins of their swimming pools to safe locations in spherical of final 8 within the twenty second Asian Males’s U20 Volleyball Championship at Jawa Pos Area and Gelora Pancasila right here on Wednesday.
As six groups have already booked their berths in spherical of final 8 or the Elite Eight, Hong Kong China will face off towards Saudi Arabia and China will battle it out with Chinese language Taipei on Thursday to battle for the remaining two slots up for grabs.
At Jawa Pos Area on Wednesday, Indonesia, recent from 3-0 demolition of Hong Kong, China the day before today, made it two in a row in Pool A following their convincing 3-0 (25-20, 25-13, 25-19) victory towards Saudi Arabia.
With two wins on the trot, the host facet secured their berths in spherical of final 8 groups. The Indonesians will subsequent tackle Australia of their final Pool A match on Thursday.
Reverse Dawuda Alaihi chipped in 11 factors from 9 kills and a pair of blocks for Indonesia, whereas fellow reverse Farchan Vachrezy and out of doors hitter Krisna stored good firm so as to add 10 and 9 factors respectively. No Saudi Arabian participant reached double digits in scoring, with Ali Al Jaber and Rasheed Al Sahli delivering 9 factors apiece on the crew’s loss.
In one other Pool A match on Wednesday, Australia succumbed to 2 straight losses to be relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Sixteenth locations. The Aussies put up a courageous battle towards Hong Kong, China, however nonetheless discovered the opponents too scorching to deal with and went down in closely-contested three-setter 23-25, 23-25, 24-26.
Reverse Lam Ho Wong scored a match-high 24 factors from 22 kills, one block and one ace to steer Hong Kong, China to the incredible 3-0 win, whereas center blocker Mitchell Croft led Australia with 11 factors from 10 kills and one block.
On Thursday, Hong Kong, China and Saudi Arabia should come up at full energy to topple one another in a must-win encounter. The winners will make the minimize for spherical of the final 8 groups, with the losers relegated to classification spherical of the opposite eight lower-ranked sides.
In Pool B, China, which went down in hotly-contested straight units to defending champions Iran of their opening match on Tuesday, regained the misplaced pleasure as the previous four-time champions managed a 3-0 (25-10, 25-13, 25-14) shutout of Qatar.
Center blocker Gao Yuning and out of doors hitter Zhang Zhiqiang scored 11 factors apiece for the China’s victory, whereas outdoors hitter Mahdi Salah led Qatar with 6 factors.
One other Pool B conflict noticed defending and seven-time champions Iran, beating China 3-0 on Tuesday, energy previous Chinese language Taipei in comfy straight units 25-13, 25-12, 25-19 for 2 in succession.
Outdoors hitter Seyed Matin Hosseini Tolouti delivered 14 factors from 12 kills, one block and one ace for Iran, whereas reverse Pouya Ariakhah and center blocker Armin Ghelichniazi, who captured the Greatest Center Blocker award on the final yr’s FIVB Volleyball Males’s U19 World Championship in Argentina, the place Iran picked up silver medal, contributed 10 and 9 factors respectively. Outdoors hitter Jheng Wei-Jhih scored 10 factors, all in assault, on the Chinese language Taipei’s loss.
The 2 successive wins with out shedding a set made Iran one of many strongest groups to be reckoned with within the one-week championship. Iran additionally secured a spot within the spherical of final 8 groups, whereas winless Qatar couldn’t make it that far and need to be relegated to classification spherical of Ninth-Sixteenth locations even though they nonetheless need to subsequent go up towards Iran of their remaining match on Thursday.
Holding the same one-one win/loss report, China and Chinese language Taipei will play a must-win match on Thursday to find out the second crew to affix Iran within the spherical of final 8.
At Gelora Pancasila, the second competitors corridor, on Wednesday, former three-time winners Japan swept Bangladesh in straight units 25-7, 25-22, 25-15 for 2 in a row in Pool C.
Outdoors hitter Shunta Ono turned the best participant on this match, claiming 19 factors from 14 kills, one block and 4 aces for Japan, whereas outdoors hitter Md Titash led Bangladesh with 7 factors together with 6 assaults from 18 makes an attempt.
Japan dominated in all parts consisting of kills (38 to 21), blocks (6 to 2) and aces (8 to three) aside from benefitting from extra opponent errors (23 to 18).
In one other Pool C conflict, India, silver medallists on the earlier version in Riffa, Bahrain two years in the past, claimed their second win on Wednesday after outplaying Kuwait in simple straight units 25-14, 25-12, 25-18.
Skipper and out of doors hitter Dhruvil Nayanbhai Patel was instrumental in lifting the India’s 3-0 victory to attain 15 factors from 13 kills and a pair of aces for the crew, whereas outdoors hitter Ahmad Almutairi led Kuwait with 10 factors from 8 kills and a pair of blocks.
With two wins in succession, each Japan and India superior to spherical of final 8 groups. Their conflict with one another on Thursday will decide the Pool C winners. Bangladesh and Kuwait did not make their mark and didn’t make it to the final 8 part, however will battle it out on Thursday for a greater place in Pool C.
In Pool D, Thailand, taking place 2-3 to Kazakhstan on Tuesday, suffered the second loss by the hands of Korea within the rematch of the 2022 third place playoff. In opposition to the formidable Koreans, former six-time champions, Thailand took the shut first set 25-22, however misplaced the remaining three units 22-25, 23-25, 22-25.
Reverse Yun Gyeong guided Korea to victory with 22 factors from 19 kills, one block and a pair of aces, with skipper and out of doors hitter Yun Seojin and one other outdoors hitter, Yoon Hajun, contributing 19 and 15 factors respectively. Christopher Arli Upakam scored a match-high 26 factors on the Thailand’s loss.
One other Pool D conflict noticed Kazakhstan declare two wins in a row following their dramatic 3-1 (20-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-22) rout of Vietnam.
Reverse Klim Ryukhov chipped in 18 factors from 16 kills and a pair of blocks for Kazakhstan, whereas reverse Trinh Ngoc Dat led Vietnam with 18 factors together with 13 assaults from 29 makes an attempt.
Korea and Kazakhstan will battle it out on Thursday to vie for the Pool D winners, however either side secured their slots within the spherical of final 8 groups. Thailand and Vietnam, each of them suffered two straight losses, had been relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Sixteenth locations, however will compete towards one another to vie for a greater place in Pool D.
The pool round-robin preliminaries proceed on Thursday, the final day of the pool play, whereas Friday is the remainder day. The championship serves because the Asia’s qualification match to qualify 4 groups in Surabaya for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Males’s U21 World Championship. Present world champions Iran have already certified, leading to 5 groups in Surabaya to affix the fray within the subsequent yr’s U21 World Championship.
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