This year’s Volleyball Nations League winners from Turkey qualified for the semifinals of European Women’s Volleyball Championship 2023. The team smashed Poland by 3-0 (25:23, 25:22, 25:18) in a quarter-final match of the championship.
The Turkish volleyball players will play in the semifinals of the European Championship for the 4th time in a row and the 7th time in history. At the last continental championship in 2021, Turkey won the bronze medals.
In the semi-finals, Turkey will face the current champion Italy, who eliminated France in the quarter-finals also by 3-0. The semi-final match will be on Friday (September 1) in the Belgian capital Brussels.
On the other hand, Poland, for the second consecutive championship, remains outside the Top 4 and will finish in 5/8th place in the final standings.
Above all for Turkey was naturalized Cuban star Melissa Vargas with a terrific 24 points (2 aces and 56% attack efficiency) for the win. Ebrar Karakurt added 14 more points (2 blocks, 2 aces, 48% offensive efficiency and 31% positive reception) for the win.
For Poland, Agnieszka Kąkolewska (5 blocks! and 53% attack efficiency) and Magdalena Stysiak (2 blocks and 37% attack efficiency) finished with 13 and 12 points.
