Russia lost one set against Australia. Carlos Cardona’s team also won the second match over Cameroon on this tournament. Best player of Puerto Rico was again Hector Soto with 23 points.

Cameroon – Puerto Rico 0:3 (22:25, 23:25, 19:25)

Team squads
Cameroon: Nongny (3 pkt), Kari Adeke (2), Abbas El Hadj, Ndaki Mboulet (24), Wounembaina (11), Feughouo (3), Fossi Kamto (libero), and Moussa, Dolegombai (1)

Puerto Rico: Rivera Jose (9 pkt), Rivera Victor (10), Escalante (7), Rodriguez (4), Soto (23), Morales (3), Rosario (libero), and Figueroa, Matias

Puerto Rico’s coach Cardona sent into battle the same starting six of yesterday’s match. Particular sets were pretty balanced, but in the end of them. Cameroon couldn’t beat their opponents. Traditionally, Hector Soto was the best player of Puerto Rico. In the Cameroon team, from 64 gained points, 24 were the work of one player. Both teams made the same number of mistakes (19). The biggest difference was noticeable in attack (49-37 for Puerto Rico) and it was en element which gave them today’s victory. On the press conference after the game, Hector Soto said: “Now we need to improve our game because tomorrow’s match against Russia is a difficult one. They have a good and high blocking but anyway this will help us to be better for the next round.”

Russia – Australia 3:1 (25:17, 25:12, 24:26, 25:)

Team squads
Russia:Khtey (8 pkt), Grankin (3), Berezhko (11), Muserskiy (15), Volkov (9), Mikhaylov (27), Verbov (libero)

Australia: Zingel (2), Roberts (5), Hardy (2), Passier (1), Alexander (1), Carroll (3), Tutton (libero), and Tudin (16), Young (1), White (5), Edgar (9)

It was kind of suprise, that Australia won this one set. Russia made a lot of mistakes again, but this time, their block and service worked better than yesterday. Anyway, Russia was a big favorite of this match and it is certain that they will take first place in the group.