Heungkuk Life defeated the Korea Expressway Corporation in the enemy territory and won the opening five consecutive games.

Heungkuk Life Pink Spiders, led by head coach Marcello Avonza, won the set-score 3-1 (25-20, 25-15, 23-25, 25-12) in an away match against High Pass of the Korea Expressway Corporation in the first round of the women's team in the 2024-2025 V-League at Gimcheon Indoor Gymnasium on the 7th. Heungkuk Life Insurance, which won three points in all games as the only undefeated team in the women's team, will finish the first round with a victory (5 wins and no losses) if it wins the home game against the Red Sparks of Jeonggwanjang on the 12th.

Heungkuk Life scored 17 points, including three rear-end attacks and one block, while Anilis Peach also contributed 10 points, boasting four blocks and a 50% attack success rate. Heungkuk Life had an even performance by several players on the day, but again, Lee contributed the most to the victory. The main character is Tutku Bourgeois, who led Heungkuk Life to its fifth consecutive win by scoring 31 points, the most since the opening of the season, with a 55.56 percent attack success rate along with five blocks.

Foreign players who were good at anything other than attack

In the V-League, foreign players are often responsible for attacks. In fact, at the tryouts for foreign players every year, each club turns on its eyes to find a foreign player who can account for a high share of attack. From the perspective of the club, there is nothing more to be desired if they have excellent attack capability, but some foreign players who passed the V-League delighted fans by displaying outstanding skills not only in attack but also in other aspects.

In fact, foreign players often show strength in blocking because they are taller than outside heaters in Korea. Among them, Mereta Lutz, the tallest (206cm) foreign player in the history of the V League and MVP of the 2020-2021 season, was quite good at blocking as well as attacking with height. In fact, Lutz led GS Caltex KIXX's treble by ranking fourth in blocking (0.56 per set) in the 2020-2021 season.
In the 2014-2015 season, the last season of the "free contract era," foreign players dominated the blocking sector. Joyce Gomez da Silva, who played for KGC Ginseng Corporation (currently Jeonggwanjang), ranked fourth in blocking (0.56 per set), Destiny Hooker of IBK Industrial Bank Altos, a former high jumper, ranked fifth (0.54 per set), and Nicole Fawcett, who played for three seasons in the V League, ranked sixth (0.52 per set).

Giselle Silva (born 1991), who is the oldest among foreign players of the seven clubs, has another weapon of strong serve besides outstanding attack and tireless physical stamina. After ranking first in serve (0.36 per set) last season, Silva is ranking second in serve (0.50 per set) this season as well. In fact, when it is Silva's turn to serve, the opponent team's receiving line will be on high alert while making efforts to minimize the number of Silva's serve.

In the V League, foreign players often focus on offense rather than defense, but there was a player who boasted stable sub-receives even though he was a foreign player. The main character is LOVB Medicine, who joined the Industrial Bank of Korea as an alternative foreign player in the 2021-2022 season and played until the 2022-2023 season. Santana showed off his stable defense by ranking sixth in this category with a "revero-class" receiving efficiency of 49.02% in the 2022-2023 season.

Apogit Spiker Tutku is third in blocking

Heungkuk Life has never had a top foreign player in the league since Berenica Tomsia in the 2018-2019 season, when she won her fourth integrated championship. This is because she always got a low order in the lottery to select the order of foreign players as she performed well in most seasons. In particular, after "Volleyball Empress" Kim Yeon-kyung returned to Heungkuk Life, she had no choice but to have more difficulty nominating good foreign players.

Heungkuk Life Insurance, which won the 6th overall pick in this year's foreign draft, virtually ranked last, selected the Apogit Spiker Tutku from Turkiye after so much consideration that he shouted "time" during the nomination process. Tutku, who played in Turkiye and the German League, was in his prime at the young age of 25 and a former member of the Turkiye national team, but was somewhat far from a player who boasted a high profile.

Tutku scored 52 points in three matches of the Cup with a 30.77 percent success rate, compared to Kim who scored 73 points with a 52.46 percent success rate. Tutku failed to play the main striker for Heungkuk Life as a foreign player, scoring 73 points in four matches and an average of 18.25 points per match even after the opening of the V-League. If foreign players are not good enough, Kim will be forced to do so, which will inevitably lead to a decrease in her physical stamina in spring volleyball. 토토사이트

However, Tutku, who failed to meet expectations, showed his best performance since debuting in the V-League at the Korea Expressway Corporation match on Sunday, leading Heungkuk Life Insurance to five consecutive wins. Tutku, who had 34.62 percent of attack share, 2.31 percent higher than Kim Yeon-koung, scored 31 points with a high success rate of 55.56 percent, and scored 25 points through offense alone. Tutku also showed off his height as tall as 191 centimeters, as he recorded five blocks, the most between the two teams.

Tutku, who is ranked fifth in scoring (104) this season, has 16 blocks in five games, ranking third in blocking (0.89 per set). Even in the early days of the season, it is highly encouraging that Tutku, an apogee spiker, is at the top of blocking categories, beating middle blockers. In addition to middle blockers Kim Soo-ji and Peach, Heungkuk Life has two side blockers (Tutku and Kim Yeon-kyung) that combine height and sense.
a sentencing seat