Jiangmen, China, July 3, 2024 – Thailand superior to spherical of final 8 following consecutive two wins in Pool C together with the sensational straight-set victory in opposition to Iran of their final pool play match of the twenty second Asian Ladies’s U20 Volleyball Championship on the Jiangmen Sports activities Heart Gymnasium on Wednesday.
The scintillating 25-14, 25-22, 25-17 win helped Thailand seize the highest spot in Pool C and safe their place within the spherical of final 8, whereas Iran, which went down in straight units to Vietnam the day before today, succumbed to 2 straight losses to be relegated to classification spherical for Ninth-Twelfth locations.
Warisara Seetaloed scored a match-high 19 factors from 17 kills and a pair of aces for Thailand, whereas Nakarinporn Budda and Thipsuda Bualai contributed 9 and eight factors respectively. Shaghayegh Hassankhani scored 13 factors, all in assault, on the Iran’s loss.
Thailand, bronze medallists on the earlier version in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan two years in the past, had already overwhelmed Vietnam in straight units on Monday, whereas Iran succumbed to straight-set loss to Vietnam and badly wanted a win in a match in opposition to Thailand to maintain their hopes of advancing to the spherical of final 8 alive.
With gifted Warisara Seetaloed on hearth in assault, Thailand acquired off to a robust begin within the first set to guide 13-5. Budda Nakarinporn’s ace service and distinctive assaults from Warisara, left-hander Papatchaya Phontham and Tanyapron Seeso all gave Thailand a very good run and so they widened the hole to succeed in the set level at 24-12. Iran, powered by hard-attacking Dastbarjan Sepinood, scored two factors in a row, earlier than Thailand closed out the set 25-14.
The second set was extra thrilling when each groups performed neck and neck, leaving the result in swing forwards and backwards for a number of instances. Because the rating was leveled at 15-15, Thailand attacked from all angles, with Warisara and Tanyapron being scoring forces for the workforce and thorns within the Iranian defence. They hit excessive of the rivals’ blocks and by no means slowed down to assist Thailand advance 22-20. Iran responded with assaults from Sepinood and Hassankhani Shaghayegh to path shut behind 22-24 earlier than sub-in Kanchana Sisaikaeo overcame the taller blockers along with her nice spike to finish the Iranian problem on this hard-fought set 25-22.
Conceding two straight units, Iran poured every little thing they needed to win the third set, however Warisara and Thanyapron remained productive for Thailand on this set as they unleashed highly effective assaults to place the workforce in entrance 15-10 earlier than widening it to 19-12. Iran didn’t give up simply and clawed their manner again to win some factors, however their comeback effort was denied. Thailand stormed on to win the set 25-17 and match.
“In the present day, we now have to reward Iran as they’ve tall gamers with excessive blocking. They tried to assist on one another, defensively and offensively. Some gamers in my workforce performed nervously, particularly when the sport grew to become intense. Nevertheless, we taught them to know our recreation plan and issues began to get higher after that. We are going to subsequent tackle Kazakhstan and China. In opposition to Kazakhstan, we are able to’t underestimate them. They’re taller than us and we now have to make use of aggressive service to restrict their offense. Concerning our match in opposition to China, I believe we now have to make use of quick assault and good defence,” mentioned Thailand head coach Kritideach Arjwichai after the match.
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