Oleg Stoyanovskiy, Russia – “We only have one game left in pool, against Nicolai and Lupo. They are a solid team. We trained with them one training camp. We have to have our best game to be in that. It is hard to avoid the block of Nicolai, you have to reach high and hit harder and higher.”
Patrick Lombi, Sierra Leone – “It was a lot of mistakes in the first match for us and we didn’t force errors. We are here to keep on fighting for points. It takes a lot of rallies. If you are in that tough level of play you know how to make the points. It is not a big deal for us, we know that we have a long way to go. The guy (Stoyanoviskiy) is too tall, really. To fight against a tall block like that you have to go higher. The fact that we reached 15 points is a very good day for us, it’s a plus.”