Pool F: Turkey – Kazakhstan
Head-to-head
• Turkey and Kazakhstan have never met at the world championships.
• Both previous meetings at major tournaments ended in straight set wins for Turkey, as they beat Kazakhstan twice in the preliminary round of the 2008 World Grand Prix.
Turkey
• Turkey have won their last two matches at the World Championship. They can win three in a row for the first time ever in the competition.
• Turkey are out of contention for the third round, but with four victories in the bag already, they can equal their highest number of wins in the first two rounds combined (5, 2010).
• In this tournament, Turkey face their first AVC opponents in Kazakhstan. In both 2006 and 2010, they met three AVC nations, on both occasions winning the first and losing both the second and third.
Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan have failed to win a set in the second round thus far – 3-0 defeats against Brazil, Serbia and Bulgaria.
• Kazakhstan have played seven matches against CEV nations at world championships, losing all of them. Only in the first of these seven, they managed to win a set (3-2 v NED in 2006).
• The last 10 world championship matches involving Kazakhstan have ended in straight sets (W2-L8).