JAKARTA The Indonesian U-21 Women's Volleyball National Team suffered another defeat in the 2025 FIVB U-21 Women's U-21 World Championship World Championship. The latest suffering of the Garuda Pertiwi squad was experienced against Serbia.
They ended the match with a dramatic score of 2-3 (21-25, 27-25, 23-25, 25-22, and 13-15) at the Java Pos Arena, Surabaya, East Java, on Monday, August 11, 2025, evening WIB.
Marcos Sugiyama's squad underwent a really tight match in this match. In the first set of Junaida Santi and her friends actually put up a fight, but Serbia finally won.
In the second set, the U-21 Women's Volleyball Team is even more impressive. Buying and selling attacks that ran from start to finish managed to make the Garuda Pertiwi squad equalize the score.
Serbia appeared more virulent in the third set and had taken the far lead. Indonesia was then able to equalize to 22-22, but unfortunately the moment at that critical time disappeared afterwards.
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In the fourth set, Indonesia and Serbia took turns leading the points. In the end, Indonesia was able to maintain their advantage and ensure victory to force the match to continue into the fifth set.
The two teams also presented each other in the determination set. Indonesia, which was left behind at the beginning, had made the position equally strong 11-11, but in the end the victory belonged to the opposing team.
This is Indonesia's third defeat to four matches that have been played in this tournament. Two other defeats were experienced when they met Vientam and Puerto Rico.
The only win so far was secured against Canada in the second game.
Indonesia will next face a difficult match against Argentina in the last match on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
Indonesia is now in fifth position in Group A standings with a collection of five points. It's an unsafe place to secure a ticket to the last 16.
The only way to be safer is to beat Argentina in the final game. However, that opportunity looks small.
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