Chennai Spartans become first Indian club to enter AVC Championship semifinals

Press Trust of India  |  Tianmu (Taiwan) 

Chennai Spartans became the first to advance to the semifinal of when they defeated City here Wednesday.

For the Spartans, Naveen Jacob came up with an impressive haul of 17 points in the encounter. City ran the Spartans close in the first set but some fine attacking by the likes of and helped the Spartans seize the advantage.

The next set saw and Jacob step up as the duo ensured the Spartans never gave away the advantage despite some fine spiking by Nguyen

Ho pushed the Spartans hard in the eventual set, but the late resurgence only delayed the inevitable as the notched up their second straight set victory.

"It was our best result so far in this tournament as we are now among the top four teams. We played badly in the first match and then we picked it up to win the remaining matches," Spartans chief coach, MH Kumara said.

Chennai Spartans will now meet the winners of the Vs Shahrdari Varamin encounter in the semi final on Thursday.

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First Published: Wed, April 24 2019. 20:15 IST