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Korea serves Japan off the court
- Updated: May 17, 2016
Korea has served Japan off the court to record an impressive 3-1 (28-26, 25-17, 17-25, 25-19) win, inflicting the home team’s first loss of the Olympic qualification tournament.
The big serve of the Koreans was the difference, with Japan struggling all night to deal with the power of Kim Hee-Jin in particular.
The opening set was everything the capacity crowd could have wished for, except for the final scoreline.
Ask a stadium full of raucous Japanese fans how they would like the first point of the match to end, and they would day a big block on a Kim Yeon-Koung spike. And that’s what they got, with Haruyo Shimamura bringing the crowd to its feet.
In the blink of an eye Japan was leading 7-2, with Yeon-Koung largely ineffective. But then the tall Korean, who many rate as one of the best players in the world, stepped up, and suddenly it was 10-10.
Miyu Nagaoka was proving particularly damaging for the home team, clocking up ten points in the opening set, while Yeon-Koung finished with eight for Korea.
But the real star for Korea in its …
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