10 of the 14 participating teams in the women’s Daido Life SV.League will be back in action with five double headers this weekend. The second leg of the regular season in Japan starts with Aranmare Yamagata against PFU BlueCats Ishikawa Kahoku on Friday and continues with another nine games on Saturday and Sunday.
SV-Women 2024-2025
Japan’s women’s SV.League continues with five double headers this weekend
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Published 07:35, 17 Oct 2024
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Aranmare Yamagata will try to bounce back from the tough trip they had to Denso Airybees Koriyama during the first weekend of the SV.League and win their first sets of the new season as they welcome PFU BlueCats Ishikawa Kahoku on Friday and Saturday at the INPEX Sakata Arena. The weekend opener starts at 19:05 local time (10:05 UTC), while the second fixture of this double header is set to get underway at 13:05 (04:05) on the following day. Ukraine’s Oleksandra Bytsenko, Thailand’s Donphon Sinpho and their Japanese teammates are bottom of the table after the first leg of action. Meanwhile, their visitors, featuring three foreign players in the line-up – Thailand’s Thatdao Nuekjang and Natthanicha Jaisaen, and United States’ Kashauna Williams – are 10th in the current standings, after exchanging victories with Victorina Himeji at home last weekend, a 3-2 win and a 3-0 loss.
Fifth-placed Victorina Himeji will try to build up on their straight-set victory at PFU BlueCats last Sunday as they welcome undefeated Saga Hisamitsu Springs to the Victorina Wink Gymnasium for their first home games of the season. Dutch head coach Avital Selinger’s squad, built around Japanese star Arisa Inoue and Thai standout Chatchu-On Moksri, meet Miyu Nagaoka and her teammates in Saturday’s opener at 12:05 (03:05) and again on Sunday’s opener at the same starting time. The team from Saga started the season with a 3-0 and a 3-2 home wins over Kurobe Aqua Fairies and currently occupy third place in the table.
In their attempt to recover from these two losses, 12th-placed Kurobe Aqua Fairies will host table leaders Denso Airybees Koriyama on Saturday and Sunday, with both fixtures scheduled at 13:05 (04:05). German outside Lena Stigrot and her teammates will make their season’s home debut trying the please the fans at the YKK Gymnasium in a tough challenge against the squad around Brazilian star Rosamaria Montibeller.
Second-placed Astemo Rivale Ibaraki, who celebrated two three-point victories on the road at Gunma Green Wings earlier this week, will be looking to continue the excellent start of the season, but in front of the home crowd at the Hitachinaka City Sports Park Total Gymnastics as they entertain Okayama Seagulls for a double header on Saturday and Sunday. The visitors are also in the top half of the standings, in sixth place on a 1-1 win-loss record, arriving after a five-set loss and a straight-set win at home against Queenseis Kariya last weekend. The games start at 13:05 (04:05) on both days.
The daily programmes on both Saturday and Sunday will close with exciting clashes between the strong teams of Toray Arrows Shiga and NEC Red Rockets Kawasaki. 14:05 (05:05) is the starting time for each of the two fixtures at the Proceed Arena Hikone, in which Italy’s Sylvia Nwakalor, Netherlands’ Juliet Lohuis and their Japanese teammates will entertain the reigning Asian club champions and defending Japanese champions’ squad featuring stars like Yoshino Sato, Haruyo Shimamura or Thailand’s Ajcharaporn Kongyot. Both teams had a rough start to the season losing their opening games, but while NEC Red Rockets bounced back from a straight-set upset at the hands of Saitama Ageo Medics with a four-set win in the second game of their home double header to line up eighth in the current standings, Toray Arrows did even worse than their five-set setback at Osaka Marvelous and lost the second match in four sets, placing themselves in 11th place.
Women’s SV.League 2024-2025 2nd leg:
Oct 18, 19:05 local (10:05 UTC): Aranmare Yamagata v PFU BlueCats Ishikawa Kahoku
Oct 19, 12:05 local (03:05 UTC): Victorina Himeji v Saga Hisamitsu Springs
Oct 19, 13:05 local (04:05 UTC): Astemo Rivale Ibaraki v Okayama Seagulls
Oct 19, 13:05 local (04:05 UTC): Kurobe Aqua Fairies v Denso Airybees Koriyama
Oct 19, 13:05 local (04:05 UTC): Aranmare Yamagata v PFU BlueCats Ishikawa Kahoku
Oct 19, 14:05 local (05:05 UTC): Toray Arrows Shiga v NEC Red Rockets Kawasaki
Oct 20, 12:05 local (03:05 UTC): Victorina Himeji v Saga Hisamitsu Springs
Oct 20, 13:05 local (04:05 UTC): Astemo Rivale Ibaraki v Okayama Seagulls
Oct 20, 13:05 local (04:05 UTC): Kurobe Aqua Fairies v Denso Airybees Koriyama
Oct 20, 14:05 local (05:05 UTC): Toray Arrows Shiga v NEC Red Rockets Kawasaki
