Trento, 24 June 2018

National championship, four yellowblues qualified for the final six of VNL

Simone Giannelli during Italy-France in Modena (ph. Fivb)

The fifth and last weekend of the Preliminary Round of Volleball Nations League 2018 brings the qualification to the final six of the tournament (4th to 8th July in Lille, France) of four players of Trenino Volley. The yellowblue club will be represented in this final phase of the new wourld manifestation of Fivb by the French libero Jenia Grebennikov, the spikers Aron Russell (USA) and Uros Kovacevic, the middle blocker Srecko Lisinac (Serbia). The weekend that just ended erased the hope of qualification of Italy of Giannelli and Candellaro, who lost in Modena two out of three matches and was then eliminated. The setter from Bolzano who played as a regular player against Russia and France and the middle blocker from Veneto who played as a regular the final part of the match against USA played in Emilia. Grebennikov played all of three matches while Russell only the one agaisnt France, in wich he scored 21 points. Thre great protagonists of the victories which brougt to the qualification to the Final Six of Serbia were Lisinac and Kovacevic, best scorer of the matches against Canada and Japan.

Here follow the statistics of the six players of Trentino Volley, engaged in the fifth weekend of Vollayball Nations League 2018.

DAVIDE CANDELLARO (middle blocker, Italy)
Sunday, Italy-Usa 0-3: 2 points (1 attack, 1 block), 100% in attack (1 out of 1)

SIMONE GIANNELLI (setter, Italy)
Friday, Italy-Russia 0-3: 4 points (2 attacks, 1 block, 1 ace), 40% in attack (2 out of 5)
Saturday, Italy-France 3-0: 0 points, 0% in attack (0 out of 2)
Sunday, Italy-Usa 0-3: 0  points

JENIA GREBENNIKOV (libero, France)
Friday, France-Usa 3-2: 0 points
Saturday, Italy-France 3-0: 0 points
Sunday, France-Usa 3-0: 0  points

SRECKO LISINAC (middle blocker, Serbia)
Friday, Canada-Serbia 0-3: 16 points (8 attacks, 3 blocks, 5 aces), 61% in attack (8 out of 13)
Saturday, Japan-Serbia 1-3: 17 points (9 attacks, 5 blocks, 3 aces), 69% in attack (9 out of 13)

UROS KOVACEVIC (spiker, Serbia)
Friday, Canada-Serbia 0-3: 13 points (9 attacks, 2 blocks, 2 aces), 50% in attack (9 out of 18)
Saturday, Giappone-Serbia 1-3: 11 points (11 attacks, 1 ace), 62% in attacco (10 out of 16) 

AARON RUSSELL (spiker, Usa)
Friday, France-Usa 3-2: 21 points (19 attacks, 1 block, 1 ace), 45% in attack (19 out of 42)

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