Pool F: Brazil – Kazakhstan
Head-to-head
• Brazil beat Kazakhstan in their only meeting at the World Championship. Kazakhstan failed to win a set in this match.
• Their last match-up came at the 2013 World Grand Prix. Again, Brazil beat Kazakhstan in straight sets.
• Brazil are unbeaten in their last four world championship meetings with teams representing Asia.
Brazil
• Brazil have lost only two of their last 28 world championship matches. Both defeats came in finals against Russia (2006, 2010).
• Brazil have lost at least one set in each of their last two world championship matches.
• Jaqueline Pereira De Carvalho Endres is the only player with a spike success rate higher than 50% at this World Championship (52.13%).
Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan have won back-to-back matches at the World Championship for the first time in history (against Mexico, Thailand). Both matches ended in straight sets.
• Of their first 13 matches of the competition, they won only one (against Cameroon).
• Kazakhstan can win at least one set in three consecutive matches. They have managed this once before in the tournament, in 2010.