Short
characterization
INDIA
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PLAYERS
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STARTING SIX - SUBSTITUTES
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1
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R Vaishnav
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3
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Singh Mandeep (C)
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5
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D Selvaprabhu
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7
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Balwinder Singh
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8
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Sangamanath Somnath Girigo
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9
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T.d. Ravikumar
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10
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Ranjeet Singh
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12
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Singh Navjit
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13
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Surender Kumar (L)
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14
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R. Ankit
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17
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Gurinder Singh
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18
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Manidurai Naveen Raja Jac
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General remarks about the team and about the
playing-style
- Good performance in complex 1 and
2.
- Athletic good developed players.
- Technical and tactical adaptation
in playing actions.
- Efficient and fluent playing.
- High intensity in playing
- Good use of emotion.
- The team was sometimes carried by
the enthusiasm of the Indian spectators.
- Combination of universal playing
abilities and individual strength.
- Effective playing structures.
Serve
- Technical
precision and tactical efficiency adapted to opponent.
- Manidurai
Naveen Raja Jac is the best server of the tournament.
- India is No. 5
in teams ranking (29 aces).
- Variety of jump
spin power services, jump floats and standing floats.
- Floats for
tactical purposes are mostly performed with a flat trajectory of the ball.
- Major goals are:
tactical effect, no direct point, no mistakes.
- Good balance between
tactical and kill serves.
Serve reception
- Stable and
secure reception.
- Three players in
reception formation.
- Before the ball
passes the net players are in good position.
- In case of jump
serve by opponent: often impulse control or punch technique is used. The
position is low and the arms move down, sometimes to the floor, when the
ball is played.
- Application of
variants of all modern reception techniques:
-
lateral
-
jumping
-
low
-
falling
forward, backward and sideways
-
3-point-reception
-
high
reception with flexible overhead technique
Set/Attack - Complex
1 and Complex 2
- Easy and quick
steps from starting position to target. During the steps moving with front
or with back in the direction of the net, depending of the situation.
Pivot by right or left foot.
- Adjustment by
little steps from target to playing position.
- Jumping with
take off of both feet or running and take off by one foot.
- Always taking
the ball as high as possible by both hands, sometimes one hand.
- Quick
and precise sets from nearly all the positions in the court.
- Effective
variation of setting: tempo and positions. Incorporating back row attack (“pipe”) in most of the combinations.
- Opposite
running backcourt attack in middle of field (as variation).
- Simply
structured attacks in Complex 1: effective set-distribution, with
high percent-tage1st tempo in the middle of the net, to player in position
2 and back row attack.
- Good use of 2nd
tempo thread around the 1ste tempo especially in rotation 1 and 6
- Lot of variation
in combination between 1st and 2nd tempo attack.
- In Complex 2, based
on good blocking and defense performance, effective variation of quick and
high attacks.
Block and defense
- Efficiency and
organization of blocking.
- Tactical
adaptation of blocking based on statistics and tactical analysis of
opponent.
- Different step combinations,
blocking position adapted to the play situation.
- Efficient
cooperation and synchrony in movement of the blockers.
- Good level of
block performance: kill blocks and rebounds.