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TIJUANA, México, August 28, 2009 – Before more
than 3,000 fans, the Mexican National Team took
advantage of the local support to defeat
Trinidad & Tobago in three quick sets in the
last match of opening day of the Playoff Round
for the 2010 Women’s World Championship played
at Centro de Alto Rendimiento of Tijuana.
The score in the Mexican victory was 25-21,
25-15, 25-22. The best scorers for Mexico were
Claudia Rodríguez with 11 points, Martha
Revuelta who had nine points and Xitlali
Herrera with eight. For Trinidad & Tobago
Krystle Esdelle had a match-high 13 points and
Kelly Anne Billing contributed 11 tallies.
Mexico presented a lineup with an effective
combination of young players with experience in
the past Junior and Youth World Championships,
along with the experience in court of the
captain Martha Revuelta and Claudia Rodriguez.
“I think the girls played well at all times and
kept the rhythm. Trinidad is a good team but
couldn’t execute against us tonight. Even though
is good to start winning, this is a short
tournament and all the teams are equaled.
Tomorrow we have to go hard against Costa Rica
and attain what we came here looking for, which
is the ticket to Japan,” said Francisco Javier
Jiménez, the coach of Mexico.
“This is a completely different team or the one
that played in the Pan American Cup. We have
been able to put together the youth girls who
were not in Miami. For that reason we are a new
team for all the opponents competing here”, said
Martha Revuelta, the Mexican captain.
Meanwhile, Francisco Cruz, the Cuban coaching
Trinidad & Tobago, said: “this team is in a
learning process and as I said yesterday in the
press conference, we are here to pay our dues. I
hope that tomorrow, playing against a taller
team, we can improve our performance.”
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