Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, June 10, 2024 – In-form Thailand cemented their place on the high of six-team standings because the host aspect handed Philippines the primary loss within the twenty second “Princess Cup” Girls’s U18 Southeast Asian Volleyball Championship on the Nakhon Pathom Gymnasium right here on Monday.
Forward of their conflict with one another, Thailand and Philippines every captured two consecutive wins of their snug outings, with the previous outplaying Indonesia 3-0 and Australia 3-0 and the latter demolishing Singapore 3-0 and Malaysia 3-1. The Monday’s win helped the workforce keep outstanding unbeaten run and make them the strongest contenders to be reckoned with on this single round-robin competitors.
Thailand fielded a formidable workforce with peak common at 176cm towards the Philippines’ 170cm. Because of this, the Philippine women have been simply overpowered by the taller and extra skilled hosts.
Philippines’ inexperience was witnessed within the first set because the host aspect pounded them with highly effective assaults from the 185cm-tall outdoors hitter Supawadee Phanwilai and fellow outdoors hitter Atitaya Kaewnok. Each groups began strongly to change factors within the early a part of the primary set 7-7 earlier than Supawadee and Atitaya anchored the host nation to seven unanswered factors to interrupt it large open earlier than extending it to 20-11, en path to a gap 25-15 victory.
The following two units turned out to be utterly one-way visitors. As Thailand have been extremely dominant with spectacular mixture assaults, consistency and resilience, Philippines suffered from unforced attacking errors and poor receptions which lastly allowed the host workforce to win 25-12 within the second set.
Regardless of a decided problem within the third set, the Philippines discovered Thailand too scorching to deal with. With reverse Sasikan Kanoiu offering backups, Thailand piled up an 18-7 lead and stormed on to seize the simple set 25-11 and the lopsided match.
Supawadee Phanwilai scored a match-high 18 factors from 13 assaults, 2 blocks and three aces for Thailand, whereas Sasikan Kanoiu and Atitaya Keawnok contributed 14 and 9 factors respectively. Kimberly Chelmei Rubin led Philippines with 11 factors.
The Thailand’s dominance was additionally seen within the match stats because the winners dominated in all parts comprising in kills (41 to 18), blocks (6 to three) and aces (8 to 1), in addition to benefiting from extra opponent errors (20 to 16).
Thailand remained on high of the standings with an ideal 3-0 win-loss document and the one unbeaten workforce within the six-day match, whereas Philippines dropped to 2-1.
Earlier, Malaysia, which succumbed to 2 straight losses to Australia and Philippines, tasted their first victory within the match on Monday as they managed to a 3-0 shutout of Singapore.
Center blocker Tian Ye Eunice, Jia Hui Denise and Ee Ling performed main roles within the Malaysia’s combat for his or her essential win, unleashing a barrage of quick spikes and stable blocks for successful the primary two units 25-14, 25-16.
Singapore, led by outdoors hitter Tan Zi Yu Katie, bounced again for a comeback within the third set, however their willpower didn’t pay its dividends. Malaysia did a greater job to take the set 25-19 and match.
Tian Ye Eunice chipped in with 19 factors from 14 assaults, team-leading 3 blocks and a couple of aces for Malaysia, whereas Tan Zi Yu Katie scored 13 factors together with 9 assaults from 27 makes an attempt on the Singapore’s loss.
The match between Indonesia and Australia noticed the previous, which suffered their first loss of their marketing campaign opener towards hosts Thailand, declare two wins in succession on Monday.
Indonesia, recent from beating Singapore in snug straight units on Sunday, relied totally on highly effective assaults from outdoors hitter Junaida Santi, reverse Azzahra Dwi Febyane and quick spikes from center blocker Chelsa Berliana Nurtomo to take the primary two units 25-17, 25-19.
Australia, which had shuffled their lineup for a number of instances to permit their gamers to achieve expertise and composure, fought again arduous within the third set however discovered the well-established Indonesians too sturdy to go down tamely 15-25.
Indonesia had 4 gamers who scored double digits on this match. Chelsa Berliana Nurtomo and Azzahra Dwi Febyane delivered 12 factors apiece, whereas Poppy Aulia Nursutan and Junaida Santi added 11 and 10 factors respectively. The 196cm-tall Anni Tang led Australia with 8 factors together with team-leading 6 blocks.
On Tuesday, the penultimate day of the only round-robin competitors, Indonesia tackle Malaysia, whereas Australia go up towards Philippines and Thailand play Singapore.
After the preliminaries, high two groups will arrange remaining conflict on Thursday, whereas the third- and fourth-placed finishers will compete for bronze and the underside two groups will battle it out for fifth place.
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