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Tokyo (Japan)
The technical Volleyball language divides the court in 6 different areas.
In Italy we call the six areas as follows: P1 - P2 - P3 - P4 – P5 – P6.
On the right you can see where the different positions are.
The letter P belongs to “Palleggiatore” which in Italian means setter. When a team is in P1, means that, at the beginning of the rally, the setter has to be in that specific position. The numbering from P1 to P6 follow the anticlockwise rotation.
Today, I discovered that the only country that doesn’t use this system is the United States. They follow the clockwise numeration. They also start numbering from our P1 called R1 (Rotation 1) but then, our P6 is their R2 and so on.
I introduced this information to better explain the tendency of Khamuttskikh (the Russian setter) in P3 and P6.
The Bulgarian statisticians found that in those two rotations, Khamuttskikh has a clear tendency to set many times Quick (a front row attack) or Pipe (a back row attack).Although the Bulgarian block was very watchful of Russian quick attacks, the two Russian middle blockers, Alexander Volkov and Alexey Kuleshov, scored 21 points in total: the first killed 12 attacks, 1 block and 1 ace and the second 9 attacks and 3 blocks.
This is a good achievement, especially comparing with the 13 Bulgarian points won by the two middle blockers Evgeni Ivanov and Krasimir Gaydarski.
