Japanese captain Yuki Ishikawa led the team to shut Iran out in Japan’s VNL 2023 opener. Also, he showed his charisma on the court in front of the home crowd in Nagoya.
The outside hitter scored 20 points. Also, he had a kill block and an ace. According to the latest sports news reports, he had a spiking success rate of 60 percent for the match.
Ran Takahashi scored ten points, including the winning point. In addition, libero Tomohiro Yamamoto displayed excellent defense with eleven digs.
Japan wins VNL 2023 Opener
According to sports betting reports, opposite Amin Esmaeilnezhad led Iran in scoring with eleven points, a block, and an ace. Captain and veteran Iranian middle blocker Seyed Mousavi scored four impressive blocking points.
Energized by the crowd’s roar, Japanese players started the match on a 3-0 run, and the team eventually went on to win the opening set 11 points to 0. With a powerful cross-court shot, Kento Miyaura, won the set, 25-16. The second set was much closer, with the lead changing hands four times between Iran and Japan before ending on a powerful pipe by Ishikawa for the final point with a score of 25-22. According to experts of volleyball betting in Korea, Iran kept it close until the score was 8-8 in the last set, but after that, the host side pulled away, eventually winning 25-19 on a blazing kill by Ran Takahashi.
On Tuesday, a thrilling five-set match between Bulgaria and China kicked off the men’s VNL. The Asians were the more persistent team, which paid off as they defeated the Europeans 3-2 (25-20, 21-25, 25-21, 20-25, 15-19). Zhang Jingyin, a defender for China, led the team in scoring with 29 points (6 kill blocks, two aces). Outside Yu Yuantai contributed 15 points, and skipper Jiang Chuan added 10 for the victors. Aleksandar Nikolov, a rising star in Bulgaria, scored 22 points, while his teammates Dimitar Dimitrov and Martin Atanasov each contributed 15.
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