Uralochka-NTMK and Dinamo Moscow played quite an epic match in Round 5 of the 2021/22 Russian Women’s Volleyball Championship.
Uralochka achieved a five-set win over vice-champions Dinamo Moscow in the fifth round of the 2021/22 Women’s Superliga Parimatch. The opening set alone lasted for 44 minutes during which we saw 78 points combined (40-38 for Uralochka), which is one of the largest single-set scores in Russian women’s volleyball ever. If not the largest. Uralochka’s Kseniya Parubets tallied 12 points (36 in total) and Dinamo’s Nataliya Goncharova 13 points (32 in total, had 73 attempts!) in this part of the game. Youngster Elizaveta Fitisova set up as many as eight blocks (out of the team’s total of 21) on the winning side. Kristina Kurnosova made 73% reception (26 digs, two errors, 35% excellent) The club from the country’s capital has been playing below expectations since the beginning of the season and is at 2-3 in the competition. Uralochka are at 3-2.
Led by the Pole Malwina Smarzek (18 points) and Yuliya Brovkina (five blocks), Lokomotiv recorded the straight-set win over Minchanka and continued their unbeaten run in Superliga (5-0).
2021/22 Women’s Superliga Parimatch – regular season, Round 5:
November 8
Leningradka – Tulitsa
