Dinamo Moscow
Metar downed reigning champions and currently second placed team in the table Dinamo Moscow and did it in four sets, partially 28-26, 26-24, 19-25, 25-22.
Without Vera Vetrova, Ekaterina Pankova, Nataliya Goncharova and Maja Poljak, who did not even arrive to Chelyabinsk and Anastasiya Markova who was in protocol but did not play, Dinamo could not expect nothing more than a defeat. As a matter of fact, Russian title holders only registered 10 players for this match. In this situation, Anastasiya Bavykina was their best scorer with 20 points. As for the winners, two players scored nearly 70% of Metar’s points – Nataliya Frolova 25 and Svetlana Sukhoverkhova 24! Overall, only five players of Metar put their name on scoring list of the hosts.
Leaders Dinamo Kazan took advantage of Dinamo Moscow’s loss to increase advantage comparing to them by four points in the standings. Dinamo Kazan prevailed over Proton Saratovskaya Oblast 3-0 with 17 points from Dariya Isaeva.
