On July 28, 2023, Ukraine will lock horns with China in the second quarter-final at the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup 2023.
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The FIVB Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup 2023, which serves as the qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League, is set to run from July 28 to 30, 2023. The competition will be hosted at Doha’s Aspire Ladies Sports Hall in Qatar. It will feature eight competing national teams, with four of them – China, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Ukraine, making their inaugural appearance in the Cup. In the previous year’s tournament, Cuba prevailed over Turkey in the championship match.
On July 28, 2023, Ukraine will lock horns with China in the second quarter-final at the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup 2023. The two teams will be competing in order to earn their place in the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Nations League 2024. This will also be the debut game for the teams in the tournament as they face each other in the quarter-final of the Men’s Challenger Cup 2023. Ugis Krastins and Sheng Wu have been roped with the responsibility of coaches for Ukraine and China, respectively.
Ukraine
Tymofii Poluian (Outside Hitter), Maksym Drozd (Middle Blocker), Oleh Plotnytskyi (Outside Hitter), Yurii Synytsia (Setter), Dmytro Teryomenko (Middle Blocker), Yurii Semeniuk (Middle Blocker), Dmytro Kanaiev (Libero), Serhii Yevstratov (Setter), Vasyl Tupchii (Opposite), Illia Kovalov (Outside Hitter), Vitalii Kucher (Outside Hitter), Oleksandr Boiko (Libero), Yevhenii Kisiliuk (Outside Hitter), Horden Brova (Libero), Oleksii Holoven (Setter), Vladyslav Shchurov (Middle Blocker), Dmytro Dolgopolov (Setter), Volodymyr Ostapenko (Middle Blocker), Oleksandr Hladenko (Middle Blocker), Dmytro Viietskyi (Middle Blocker), Bohdan Mazenko (Middle Blocker), Oleksandr Buzduhan (Outside Hitter), Dmytro Shapoval (Opposite), Ugis Krastins (Coach).
China
Chuan Jiang (Opposite), Lei Li (Outside Hitter), Yuantai Yu (Outside Hitter), Yaochen Yu (Setter), Cheng Guo (Setter), Yongzhen Li (Middle Blocker), Zhihao Liu (Setter), Dejun Zhai (Outside Hitter), Shikun Peng (Middle Blocker), Zongshuai Qu (Libero), Shuhan Rao (Middle Blocker), Ruantong Miao (Middle Blocker), Jingyin Zhang (Outside Hitter), Zihua Wen (Opposite), Xinyu Zhang (Middle Blocker), Xilong Chen (Outside Hitter), Qingyao Dai (Outside Hitter), Haonan Liu (Opposite), Sheng Wu (Coach).
| Schedule for the Quarterfinals | Timing |
| Tunisia vs Chile | 13:30 (Indian Standard Time) or 11:00 (Arabia Standard Time) |
| Ukraine vs China | 16:30 (Indian Standard Time) or 14:00 (Arabia Standard Time) |
| Qatar vs Thailand | 19:30 (Indian Standard Time) or 17:00 (Arabia Standard Time) |
| Turkey vs Dominican Republic | 22:30 (Indian Standard Time) or 20:00 (Arabia Standard Time) |
The tournament will be held at Aspire Ladies Sports Hall in Doha, Qatar from July 28 to July 30, 2023.
The LIVE Streaming of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup 2023 will be available on Volleyball world TV. To access the streaming, one has to subscribe to the VBTV premium which will cost $3.99 per month. The highlights of the matches of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s Challenger Cup 2023 can be found on the YouTube channel of the Volleyball World.
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