Determining the 4 quarter-final pairs of the 2025 Men's Volleyball World Championship

(Dan Tri) - The last two matches of the round of 16, which took place yesterday afternoon and evening (September 23), brought Iran and the Czech Republic into the quarterfinals. Iran beat Serbia 3-2, while the Czech Republic beat Tunisia 3-0.

Quarter-final schedule

September 24

14:30, Italy - Belgium

19:00, Poland - Türkiye

September 25

14:30, Czech Republic - Iran

19:00, USA - Bulgaria

The match between the Iranian men's volleyball team (ranked 15th in the world ) and Serbia (ranked 10th in the world) was extremely intense.

In the first half, both sides were always close to each other, neither team was too far ahead of the other. In this half, Serbia won by a narrow score of 25-23, temporarily leading 1-0.

The match between Iran (red shirt) and Serbia was very good (Photo: Inquirer.net).

The joy of Iranian athletes when they won the right to enter the quarterfinals (Photo: Inquirer.net).

In the second set, the Iranian men's volleyball team played explosively. The representative of Asian volleyball won 25-19, leveling the score 1-1 after two sets.

The third set continued to be extremely tense. Both sides kept chasing each other, before the Serbian men's volleyball team won dramatically 26-24, temporarily leading 2-1.

But once again, the Iranian team did not give up. In the fourth quarter, Iran narrowly won against Serbia 25-22, forcing the match to go into a fifth quarter.

Iran's opponent in the quarterfinals is the Czech Republic (Photo: Inquirer.net).

In the fifth and decisive set, the Iranian men's volleyball team showed more resilience and better physical strength. The Asian team quickly won this set with a score of 15-9. In the end, Iran beat Serbia 3-2 (23-25, 25-19, 24-26, 25-22 and 15-9), Iran won the right to enter the quarterfinals.

Iran continues to carry the hopes of Asian men's volleyball to win a medal at this year's world championship.

Iran's opponent in the quarterfinals is the Czech Republic men's volleyball team. In the remaining match of the round of 16, which took place yesterday afternoon (September 23), in the Philippines, the Czech Republic team (ranked 18th in the world) defeated the Tunisia team (ranked 40th in the world) 3-0 (25-19, 25-18 and 25-23).

The quarter-finals will take place on September 24 and 25, with defending champions Italy (ranked 5th in the world) facing Belgium (ranked 16), Poland (ranked 1st in the world) facing Turkey (ranked 17), the Czech Republic facing Iran, and the US (ranked 3rd in the world) facing Bulgaria (ranked 19).

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