Azerbaijani champion defeated Russian champion!

With the match Rabita Baku-Zarechie Odintsovo first day of the "Baku Volley Cup" tournament came to the end.
Azerbaijani champion Rabita Baku faced the last Russian champion Zarechie Odintsovo at the last match of the first day.
Rabita Baku which misses the players like Kimberly Glass,Mirela Delic,Natasa Krsmanovic and libero Silvija Popovic played great match against very strong Russian team which played with the main squad and missed just a German player Margarethe Kozuch who is also one of the main key players of the team.
Both the teams started match scoring points in a row. Natalya Mammadova and Olga Ativi played as outside hitters,the middle-blockers were Serbian experienced Mira Golubovic and Lidiya Dyachenko,setter was Irina Zhukova who aslo played for Zarechie Odintsovo in the past,and her opposite was Sanja Starovic.
Olga Ativi and Mira Golubovic led the team with their powerful spikes and Mammadova played very effectively at reception as in the first set also in the following sets.
Rabita Baku won the first two sets 25-20: 25-21 and lost the third one 25-27 playing very comfortable and thinking that they had won the whole match. But Zarechie Odintsovo played very good as a team,and showed great performance with the players like Walewska Moreira de Oliveira,Kseniya Naumova,Anna Makarova and Anastasiya Markova. Another great performance came from the guests` libero Vinogradova who played amazingly the all match long.
Rabita Baku won the last set with strong attacks of the captain Mammadova and blocks of Mira Golubovic -25:21 and 3-1 in the sets.
So,Rabita,Azerrail and Uralochka finished the first day with important wins.

Rabita Baku: Zhukova (Nenova),Starovic,Mammadova,Ativi, (Kulikova),Golubovic,Dyachenko and libero Doganjic.

Zarechie-Odintsovo: Zhadan (Pankova),Makarova,Naumova,Markova,Lisovskaya (Bogacheva),Walewska and libero Vinogradova.

Tomorrow`s match schedule:

3 November
15:00. “Rabita” - “Uralochka”
17:00. “Azerrail” - “Zarechie-Odintsovo”
19:00. “Galatasaray” - “Lokomotiv”

All the matches will be shown LIVE by "Idman Azerbaycan" TV.