Poland misplaced to Japan in a pleasant volleyball event in Gdańsk

The Polish nationwide volleyball workforce misplaced to Japan 2:3 within the first match of the pleasant event in Gdańsk. The sooner match between the USA and Serbia didn’t happen – the workforce from the Balkans, as a result of failure of IT programs and the paralysis of airports, didn’t attain Poland.

The Japanese have fun throughout a pleasant volleyball match with Poland / Adam Warżawa /PAP

The pleasant volleyball match between Poland and Japan ended with the consequence 2:3 (25:23, 20:25, 19:25, 25:23, 15:17).

After an excellent begin to the primary set, the Poles, after Norbert Huber’s block, took the result in 17:13, however their rivals tied the rating at 19:19. At 22:22, the Japanese broke two serves, Masato Kai attacked out and the hosts triumphed 25:23.

Within the second set, coach Nikola Grbić’s gamers misplaced solely 18:19, however the finish positively belonged to the friends, and Ran Takahashi equalized the match with an ace.

The hosts began the third set with a 4:1 lead, however the opponents made up for the loss and took the initiative. The gamers of the well-known French coach Philippe Blain carried out very nicely on the serve and within the block. Bartosz Kurek, Łukasz Kaczmarek and Aleksander Śliwka have been satisfied of the effectiveness of the latter ingredient. The White and Reds have been additionally mistaken on the serve, and Śliwka ended this set by sending the ball into the online.

Within the fourth set, with the rating at 6:3 for the Poles, Kentaro Takahashi suffered a dangerous-looking damage. The center blocker slipped, hit his head on the court docket and left Ergo Area on a stretcher with a stiff neck.

Injured Japanese participant Kentaro Takahashi leaves the pitch on a stretcher throughout a pleasant volleyball match with Poland / Adam Warżawa /PAP

After Fornal’s ace, the Japanese workforce was dropping 16:20, however they did not quit. After assaults by the well-disposed Yuji Nishida and Yuki Ishikawa, the rating was tied at 23:23. Then Taishi Onodera broke the serve, and Fornal’s assault led to a tie-break.

The deciding set was extraordinarily shut. With the rating tied at 15:15, Akihiro Yamauchi made no mistake from the center, Fornal did not equalize, and Ishikawa successfully completed the counterattack, sealing his workforce’s success.

Solely center blocker Jakub Kochanowski didn’t play within the match in opposition to Japan.

Listed below are the Saturday lineups for each groups:

• Poland: Marcin Janusz, Norbert Huber, Aleksander Śliwka, Wilfredo Leon, Bartosz Kurek, Mateusz Bieniek, Paweł Zatorski (libero) and Tomasz Fornal, Kamil Semeniuk, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Grzegorz Łomacz, Bartłomiej Bołądź;
• Japan: Ran Takahashi, Kentaro Takahashi, Yuki Ishikawa, Yuji Nishida, Masahiro Sekita, Akihiro Yamauchi, Tomohiro Yamamoto (liberal), oraz Akihiro Fukatsu, Kento Miyaura, Masato Kai, Tatsunori Otsuka, Taishi Onodera.

On Sunday, as a part of the pleasant event in Gdańsk, there will probably be a Poland-USA volleyball match. The match is scheduled to start out at 7:30 p.m.

Earlier, at 5:00 p.m., the match between Japan and Serbia will begin.