2015 World Cup - Japan - 8/22

    japanese players had the hair cut in the same barber's i think
    and the light over the court is not enough, all players faces look in shade. i am not sure if this will affect the players to observe the balls during serving and playing.
    Japan did a good job at serving and the quick connections works.

    i may not be the tallest,
    the fastest, or the strongest,
    but at least i can do one thing better than anyone else,
    to be me...

    Why can't Saori Kimura ever play this well outside of her home country? Quite mysterious. Russian blocking is not working at all :aww:

    Saori is stunning today! She has cut her hair and she is playing like in 2010.

    Quote from Emil

    Lyubushkina is hopeless...

    Not just her, nobody on Russian side blocks well individually but worst of all they don't block well as a team, they're badly positioned with big holes between the blockers and bad timing.


    Serbia's "decision" to skip WGP final round turns out to be a good one. Russia who played fairly well in WGP finals now lacks the energy they had back then, and it's just the 2nd of 11 matches :S

    What? GP does not mean anything for them right now...World Cup means so much more...they want the gold at the Olympics. That's what they are fighting for in the last 8 years

    Kosianenko is definitely worn out, in general she's a really good digger and moves very fast in defense but today she doesn't even have enough energy to set.

    As expected, Mihajlovic played so well and Robinson should be starting 6 of US. Interestingly Japan makes trouble of Russia now. Things go well as Japan plans for Asian teams :lol:

    Quote from Matthias

    Not just her, nobody on Russian side blocks well individually but worst of all they don't block well as a team, they're badly positioned with big holes between the blockers and bad timing.


    Serbia's "decision" to skip WGP final round turns out to be a good one. Russia who played fairly well in WGP finals now lacks the energy they had back then, and it's just the 2nd of 11 matches :S

    So seems to be the Chinese decision to not sending their A team to the WGP Final Round.


    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

    Quote from Sidney

    What? GP does not mean anything for them right now...World Cup means so much more...they want the gold at the Olympics. That's what they are fighting for in the last 8 years


    Of course it's their main goal, but maybe they will have other chances to qualify.