Antropova made some insane digs yesterday. Is she the best defender ever over 200 cm tall?
Italy - Serie A1 2023/24
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Antropova made some insane digs yesterday. Is she the best defender ever over 200 cm tall?
Brayeling is good defense also
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Brayeling is good defense also
Yes, I thought about her as well. Any other candidates?
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Antropova made some insane digs yesterday. Is she the best defender ever over 200 cm tall?
Stysiak is very good as well.
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Antropova made some insane digs yesterday. Is she the best defender ever over 200 cm tall?
I'm switching to men's, but Michieletto is quite agile for his height.
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Just to put into perspective of how spectacular Antropova is from the service line this season, its relevant to put her stats during this campaign in light with some historical background or context.
The one with most aces last season was Antropova herself with 53 aces. Karakurt was second with 41 aces last season. Egonu was the serve leader 2021/2022 with 49 aces and Hancock in 20/21 with 58 aces and Egonu finished on top in 18/19 with 52 hits. Bricio prevailed in 17/18 with 52 killed serves. Katarina Barun, the Croatian legend, dispatched 57 aces in 16/17 and thus out-manuvered the remaining field that year. Barun was also the main gun in the 15/16 campaign with 41 and Valentina Zago with 45 in 13/14. Artamonova went into pole position in 00/01 with 41 and De Carne with 47 in 01/02. Floortje Meijners was the leader in 12/13 with 31 aces. All numbers include both regular season and playoff.
Virginie De Carne had 74 aces in 02/03 and it is the highest number I can find in the database and should be the record until this season (since 1998).
Now Antropova has 82 aces (!!!) already with (at least) two games left to play. She has 0,74 aces per set while Egonu, who is second, has 0,47 aces per set and 50 aces.
Of course I might have missed something and cannot say for sure this is an all-time record, but I would say it seems to be extremely likely. No one else, except for Virginie De Carne, seems to be even remotely close to reaching that mark, not even legendary servers such as Hanckok, Egonu, Bricio and Barun as no one of them ever reached beyond 60 aces.
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Just to put into perspective of how spectacular Antropova is from the service line this season, its relevant to put her stats during this campaign in light with some historical background or context.
The one with most aces last season was Antropova herself with 53 aces. Karakurt was second with 41 aces last season. Egonu was the serve leader 2021/2022 with 49 aces and Hancock in 20/21 with 58 aces and Egonu finished on top in 18/19 with 52 hits. Bricio prevailed in 17/18 with 52 killed serves. Katarina Barun, the Croatian legend, dispatched 57 aces in 16/17 and thus out-manuvered the remaining field that year. Barun was also the main gun in the 15/16 campaign with 41 and Valentina Zago with 45 in 13/14. Artamonova went into pole position in 00/01 with 41 and De Carne with 47 in 01/02. Floortje Meijners was the leader in 12/13 with 31 aces. All numbers are both regular season and playoff.
Virginie De Carne had 74 aces in 02/03 and it is the highest number I can find in the database and should be the record until this season (since 1998).
Now Antropova has 82 aces (!!!) already with two games left to play. She has 0,74 aces per set while Egonu, who is second, has 0,47 aces per set and 50 aces.
Of course I might have missed something and cannot say for sure this is an all-time record, but I would say it seems to be extremely likely. No one else, except for Virginie De Carne, seems to be even remotely close to reaching that mark, not even legendary servers such as Hanckok, Egonu, Bricio and Barun as no one of them ever reached beyond 60 aces.
wow that’s crazy! I also love reading historical posts like these
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Just to put into perspective of how spectacular Antropova is from the service line this season, its relevant to put her stats during this campaign in light with some historical background or context.
The one with most aces last season was Antropova herself with 53 aces. Karakurt was second with 41 aces last season. Egonu was the serve leader 2021/2022 with 49 aces and Hancock in 20/21 with 58 aces and Egonu finished on top in 18/19 with 52 hits. Bricio prevailed in 17/18 with 52 killed serves. Katarina Barun, the Croatian legend, dispatched 57 aces in 16/17 and thus out-manuvered the remaining field that year. Barun was also the main gun in the 15/16 campaign with 41 and Valentina Zago with 45 in 13/14. Artamonova went into pole position in 00/01 with 41 and De Carne with 47 in 01/02. Floortje Meijners was the leader in 12/13 with 31 aces. All numbers include both regular season and playoff.
Virginie De Carne had 74 aces in 02/03 and it is the highest number I can find in the database and should be the record until this season (since 1998).
Now Antropova has 82 aces (!!!) already with (at least) two games left to play. She has 0,74 aces per set while Egonu, who is second, has 0,47 aces per set and 50 aces.
Of course I might have missed something and cannot say for sure this is an all-time record, but I would say it seems to be extremely likely. No one else, except for Virginie De Carne, seems to be even remotely close to reaching that mark, not even legendary servers such as Hanckok, Egonu, Bricio and Barun as no one of them ever reached beyond 60 aces.
Nice overview! I hope one day we can watch she and Arina at the same league to see who is the ace queen. I have a soft spot for good jump servers😍
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Also just an observation:
Antropova's serves have minimal spin which should be better categorised as hybrid serve.
Most other jump servers are more like traditional jump spinner servers.
Safe to say Antropova is the women side of Mateusz Bieniek!
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Alberti instead of Linda starting?
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Alberti instead of Linda starting?
Linda had a flu during the week according to Italian comment
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Linda had a flu during the week according to Italian comment
Oh…
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Herbots on fire at the end of this set
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Maja is amazing
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barring haak and wolosz, imoco is made up of jack of all trades type of players and it makes them vulnerable when an opponent with high firepower is having a good day.
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amazing match
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Krob has had like 4 really important digs on strong attacks in set 1…
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This finals is just out of this world.
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Hello!
Any link to watch the Game?
Thanks
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The service run from Antropova and Herbots killing like 100% to make the comeback were really impressive. Such a pity they still lost the set eventually.
