Current titleholders suffered a defeat after four sets (25-13, 23-25, 8-25, 15-25) and they will try in the next match to come to equalization.
Tijana Bošković scored 26 points while Jordan Larson-Burbach finished a match with 13 points and only these two players in the winning team had the double effect.
In Yellow Angels the Azerbaijan star Polina Rahimova was only motivated and she scored 16 points in four sets.
The next match is scheduled for March 25.
To see complete results, stats and standings, visit our TUR National championship 2017/2018 (Female) page.
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