Beijing time on October 13, the 2022 World Women's Volleyball Championship started the semi-finals. Boskovic scored 33 points, leading the Serbian women's volleyball team to defeat US women's volleyball team 3-1, and reached the final, just one step away from defending the title.
The Serbian women's volleyball team has achieved relatively stable results in the three major world competitions in recent years. In the 2015 World Cup, Serbian lost to Chinese women's volleyball team for the first time and finally won the runner-up. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Serbian women's volleyball team lost again to the Chinese women's volleyball team coached by Lang Ping in the final and won the silver medal.
2018 World Championships, Serbian women's volleyball team defeated Dutch in the semi-finals, defeated the Italian team in the finals, and won the championship. This is the team's first three major world competitions championship. At last year's Tokyo Olympics, the Serbian women's volleyball team defeated Korean women's volleyball team , led by Jin Ruanjing , 3-0 in the bronze medal match, and finally won third place.
In this World Championships, Serbia lacks two major players, Ojeninovic and Lasic and , but under the leadership of head coach Santalelli, he remained unbeaten in the first two stages and won the top spot in Group F. In the quarter-finals, the Serbian women's volleyball team narrowly defeated one of the hosts, Polish women's volleyball team, 3-2, and entered the semi-finals.
US women's volleyball team has also performed well in recent years under the leadership of head coach Killarie . At the 2014 World Championships, the US women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team in the final and won the championship. In the final of the Tokyo Olympics last year, the US women's volleyball team defeated , Brazilian women's volleyball team , winning the Olympic championship for the first time.
In this World Championships, the US women's volleyball team achieved 7 wins and 2 losses in the first two stages, lagging behind Serbia and ranking second in Group F. In the quarter-finals, the US women's volleyball team performed well, eliminating the Turkish women's volleyball team led by Goodty 3-0, and entered the semi-finals.
In this game, Serbia's starting lineup is the main attacking Mikhailovich , Busa , deputy attacking Stevanovich , Alexic, setter del Cha, match Boskovic, libero Pusic ; US women's volleyball starter is the main attacking Robinson (Cook), Franti, deputy attacking Washington , Ogbogu, setter Porter , match Druss , libero Orantes Huang.
First game, the Serbian women's volleyball team showed high strength on both ends of offense and defense, suppressing the US team in rhythm. Boskovic's spikes have been tried and tried, helping the team to take the lead 25-21. In the second game, both teams had some ups and downs, and Serbia won another game 25-20.
in the third game, Serbian women's volleyball team fluctuated in the first pass, Mirenkovic replaced Mikhailovic, but there was still no improvement. Serbia lost 17-25. In the fourth game, Popovich replaced Alexic as deputy attacker. Serbia grasped the key points and won 25-23, defeated the US women's volleyball team 3-1 and advanced to the finals.
In this game, Serbian women's volleyball team led 62-53 in spikes, blocked 6-7, and served 4-8. Serbia scored 21 points for a mistake, while the US scored 20 points for a mistake. In terms of player scoring, Serbia Boskovic scored 33 points, Busa scored 15 points, Stevanovic scored 7 points, Team USA Robinson scored 18 points, Druss scored 14 points, and Ogbogu scored 10 points.
