3rd Asian Central Zone Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship 2017

Turkmenistan stormed past Kyrgyzstan in epic five-set thriller 3-2 (22-25, 21-25, 25-20, 25-20, 16-14) to advance to the Thursday’s final of the 3rd Asian Central Zone Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship 2017 at the Youth Centre Indoor Hall in Male’ City, Maldives.

Kyrgyzstan last Saturday played well in the first two sets for the commanding 2-0 lead, needing only one more set to claim the victory .However,Turkmenistan were just never-say-die to storm back aggressively to win in the remaining three sets.

In the other encounter on Sunday, unbeaten Turkmenistan breezed past Maldives with a convincing straight-set 25-22 25-15 25-20 win to make a clean sweep of the single round-robin preliminaries.

The competition started on March 22 and will run to March 30, with Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Maldives battling it out in the preliminaries.

Turkmenistan become the best-ranked team in the preliminary round to advance to the final round, while the teams finishing second and third in the preliminaries will meet each other again in the semi-final. The winners in this round will then go up against Turkmenistan in the final showdown.


In the semi-final of this tournament on Tuesday, Nepal are set to take on Kyrgyzstan to determine which team will play Turkmenistan in the Thursday’s final. Wednesday is the rest day.