India is defeated by women’s volleyball at the Asian Championships; Kazakhstan will play for fifth or sixth place.

The South Korean women’s volleyball team, which has gone from being a ‘world top four’ to an ‘Asian top four’ team, pulled off a frustrating victory over an underdog India.

Led by head coach Cesar Hernández González, the Koreans defeated India 3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-20) on Friday in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, in the fifth through eighth place match of the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championship.

Korea will play Kazakhstan for fifth place at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday.

Kazakhstan won their match against Australia 3-2 (25-16, 21-25, 19-25, 25-15, 15-12) at the same time as the Korea-India match.

South Korea, ranked 33rd in the world, struggled against 66th-ranked India.

The result was a shutout victory, but it was a narrow one, as each set was close.

In the first set, the Koreans had to fight back from an early deficit to take the set, and in the second set, they fell behind early before rallying midway through.

The Korean women’s volleyball team, which was trying to redeem itself at the tournament, lost its first match of the tournament against Vietnam on March 30, and then lost its quarterfinal match against Thailand 0-3 on March 3.

It was the first time the Korean women’s volleyball 먹튀검증 team has been eliminated in the quarterfinals of the tournament since it began competing in 1975.