SecondEvery volleyball Olympic champion Laura Ludwig She missed the semifinals in Tokyo with her partner Margareta Kozuch. In the quarter-finals of the Olympics, the duo from Hamburg lost 0:2 (19:21, 19:21) to the world’s fifth-ranked American Alix Kleiman/April Rose.
Of the first three German duos in Japan, only the team is now out Julius Thor And Clemens Wickler in the game. In the quarter-finals on Wednesday (3pm CEST), the runner-up world champion will face Russia’s Vyacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg in the new World Cup final two years ago. · Stojanovski met.
There is no set victory for American women
With the last remaining American team surrounding Rose, who won two Olympic medals and three World Cup medals, Ludwig/Kozuch led by 2:4 in the heat and humidity again. Two points. As the rain started, they equalized again at 7:7 and then moved to 11:8. This lead was not maintained at the beginning, and the balance was not maintained until 19:19. Then the US team used a slightly too long serve and Kozuch’s somewhat restrained offense to guide the decision.
The second movement also begins. Ludwig/Kozuk fell behind 3:5, stayed on the court and tied with 7:7. At 9:8 they took the lead in the second round and immediately extended the score to 10:8. The buffer again did not last long in the high-level game. At 11:11, the set was balanced again. Neither team gave each other anything, and the service error in the first confrontation was limited to Ludwig/Kozuch.
In the end, Ludwig lost two straight, and the US team led by two points with 18:16. On the US team’s second match point, Ludwig was in vain.
