“Both teams played a good game and thanks to God the result went for us,” Cuba’s Yusidey Silie said. “We went out to have fun and we are happy with the bronze and the qualification to the Grand Prix.”
“We need to continue working to iron some wrinkles in our game, to work on some details like our concentration,” Dominican Prisilla Rivera said. “We are very sad for not winning a medal but I there are more events in the future.”
“You always expect matches like this when our teams face each other,” Cuba’s Juan Carlos Gala said. “We won two five-setters against them in this competition. The fifth set was very dramatic and in a tie-breaker the team who plays better win most of the time.”
“In a fifth set anything can happen,” Dominican Republic’s coach Markos Kwiek said. “It was a very intense match like always happens when these two teams play each other. We need to continue working and improving.”