Japan
After the game head coach of Japan Masayoshi Manabe said:
“Our serves and defense worked well tonight. Teamwork is very important. Russia has tall players and we don’t, so we had to adjust. I was not worried when we lost the second set. We made some mistakes with our spikes. I kept encouraging the players and they responded.”
Russia coach – Yury Marichev:
“Japan played very well today. We had a lot of problems and made a lot of mistakes. There were many things we did not do well.”
Japan captain – Saori Kimura:
“We really wanted to win the first game. I’m relieved that we did. Russia has really strong blockers, but we never gave up. We will do our best against the USA tomorrow.”
Russia captain – Ekaterina Pankova:
“We are not satisfied. Japan did very well even when they were behind. We should play better than this. We have to forget today’s result and concentrate on winning tomorrow.”
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