Post-match Press Conference (JPN-TUR)
Kunshan, China, June 17, 2017- The service played a key role as Japan saw off Turkey 3-2 (22-25, 25-12, 22-25, 25-19, 15-12) in a thrilling tie-breaker in World League rematch on Saturday. One of the strongest servers of Japan was Masahiro Yanagida, who sent 5 aces at Turkey's passing line. Japan coach, Nakagaichi Yuichi - “One of the reasons of the win today is serving, it works well today. But we also made lots of easy mistakes, we have to practice after the match.”
Turkey coach, Joshko Milenkoski - “Congratulations to Japan. We changed a little today, we started with new opposite and middle blockers. We started well today, we had chance to win, but Japan started to serving well. They had amazing serves, which caused us big problem. We did good in blocks but made too many mistakes. However, I am satisfied with the team because some of the players were playing their first game, I think they played well.”
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