Already in best six group, USA Keep a perfect march

VERONA, Italy, October 4, 2014 – Already qualified USA beat Serbia in straight sets (25-22, 25-20, 25-22) in the second round of the FIVB Women’s World Championship at PalaOlimpia on Saturday, keeping up their no-loss trend in the tournament.

Serbia can still qualify for the finals in Milan with a victory against Russia tomorrow in Verona, but this is now dependent on the result between Brazil and Russia later today.

Key points: USA beat Serbia in their first meeting at a World Championship. They also won six of the nine matches they played at major competitions.

USA are the only team that have taken maximum points in this championship, winning all their matches 3-0 or 3-1 USA’s best result at the previous 14 World Championship was a runners-up finish in 1967 and 2002. Serbia have now lost two of the eight matches they played at this World Championship, the first one against Brazil.

Tijana Boskovic was again the top scorer on the European side with 15 points, will Kelly Murphy confirmed the best asset for USA with 14 points.