{"id":42961,"date":"2019-07-02T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=42961"},"modified":"2019-07-02T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:15:45","slug":"keizer-and-meppelink-continue-winning-ways-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/keizer-and-meppelink-continue-winning-ways-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"KEIZER AND MEPPELINK CONTINUE WINNING WAYS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Hamburg, Germany, July 2, 2019 &#8211; Pool title No. 2 for the Netherlands was achieved here Tuesday morning as reigning European champions Sanne Keizer and Madelein Meppelink joined compatriots Joy Stubbe and Marleen van Iersel with 3-0 match marks in the 2019 FIVB World Championships at Am Rothenbaum Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Seeded eighth in the competition, Keizer and Meppelink posted a 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) Pool H win in 37 minutes over 17th-seeded Nina Betschart and Tanja Huberli of Switzerland. It was the Dutch pair&#8217;s first win over Betschart and Huberli on the FIVB World Tour in three meetings, but Keizer and Meppelink defeated the Swiss last July in The Hague for the European crown.<\/p>\n<p>While Keizer and Meppelink did not lose a set in their three pool matches on the Rothenbaum courts, the 31st-seeded Stubbe and van Iersel had to defeat higher-ranked pairs to capture Pool G with wins over seventh-seeded Mariafe Artacho\/Taliqua Clancy of Australia and 18th-seeded Brooke Sweat\/Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the intensity of the match with the Swiss, Meppelink said: \u201cI don\u2019t know if this was the most intense we\u2019ve played, but for this World Championships, for sure this was the most intense game we\u2019ve had so far. We\u2019ve played them before a couple of times, they\u2019re a very good team so we knew it would be a tough game and I\u2019m happy we won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In both sets on Tuesday, the Dutch were trailing and asked for time-outs.\u00a0 \u201cI have no idea,\u201d said Meppelink.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think we talked that much. In the second set that was a bit more intense. We were like \u2018This is not what we want.\u2019 We were \u2018Get back in the game, start playing our game.\u2019 I think we did a good job with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keizer, a competitor in the Olympic Games with van Iersel, as was Meppelink, said the comebacks in both sets were \u201cabout smart thinking and it was hard work to get back in the two sets because we were behind. We did a good job of keeping focus on what we wanted to do and how we got there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Swiss, Huberli said: \u201cThe Duchies put a lot of pressure on us on serve and we were struggling to find the serve pressure we were looking for the whole game. We wanted to serve well but we didn\u2019t almost the whole game so that was for sure a big difference. We had too many mistakes in our game and too many balls were not precise enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Betschart said about the set leads that: \u201cThe Dutch took risks on their serve and they did well. It was difficult for us and we made some mistakes in important situations. They could turn both sets around and that\u2019s the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the mixed zone session on Tuesday, Keizer said \u201cNow it really starts\u201d while Betschart \u201cwas looking forward to the round of 32.\u00a0 Now, the real World Championships start, and we are excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg, Germany, July 2, 2019 &#8211; Pool title No. 2 for the Netherlands was achieved here Tuesday morning as reigning European champions Sanne Keizer and Madelein Meppelink joined compatriots Joy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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