The volleyball team Vakifbank continues its excellent performance in Turkey’s Sultanlar Ligi Women, winning their visitor’s match versus Fenerbahce with 1-3 (25:27, 25:22, 21:25, 10:25).
The win was not so easy, however. Vakifbank took the lead at the very beginning of the first game, but their opponents turned over the score. Fenerbahce even had a serious advantage of 24:19 in the end and was close to winning the game with 5 game balls. However, the service of the Fenerbahce’s captain, Eda Erdem Dundar, was accurate, but pretty easy for the spike of Vakifbank and Zehra Gunes scored for 24:20. The service went to Vakifbank and was taken by Buket Gulubay. First, the attack of Fenerbahce’s opposite Anna Lazareva was out and then the block of Vakifbank worked perfectly against the attack of Melissa Vargas to save the match and made the score 24:22. The coach of Fenerbahce Zoran Terzic asked for a break but after the service of Buket Gulubay the spiker Melissa Vargas was stopped again by the block and the result was 24:23. The next point was the longest in the game with several spikes from both teams, but at the end, the spike of Isabelle Haak bright the point to Vakifbank, and the result was 24:24. However, Anna Lazareva succeeded to give another game ball for Fenerbahce, but Zehra Gunes spiked for tie the result and Melissa Vargas was again stopped by the block of Vakifbank. The final point was made by Isabelle Haak with block-out, which was reviewed by the referees and gave the win in the first game to Vakifbank.
The second game was also very tight as Vakifbank took the lead, but Fenerbahce turned over. However, in the last points, it was moving point-by-point to 23:23 at the service for the hosts. Arina Fedorovtseva was on the service and made an ace, which gave a game ball for Fenerbahce. Vakifbank’s coach Giovanni Guidetti asked for a break immediately. However, Arina Fedorovtseva made another perfect serve and the attack of Isabelle Haak was out, which gave the second game to Fenerbahce.
The third game was also very interesting. Vakifbank took a lead with 3 points in the beginning to 3:6, but Fenerbahce turned the game over to 13:9. However, the game was moving equally and tied at 17:17. Since then, the team of Vakifbank took the initiative and won it by 21:25.
The fourth game was under the total domination of Vakifbank, which players took the lead from the very beginning and closed it with 10:25.
In the other matches of Turkey’s Sultanlar Ligi Women, Kuzey Boru Genclik lost at home to Galatasaray with 2-3 (19:25, 25:19,17:25, 25:17, 5:15), while Bolu Bld won by 3-1 (28:26, 28:26, 23:25, 25:17) versus Mert Grup Sigorta and Yesilyurt lost at home to THY by 0-3 (12:25, 15:25, 14:25).
Leader in the standings is Vakifbank with 41 pts (14-2), followed by Eczacibasi with 39 pts (13-3), Fenerbahce with 39 pts (13-3) and THY with 37 pts (13-3).