Dresdner SC loses first quarter-final match against VC Wiesbaden

The Dresden SC volleyball team started the play-offs with a defeat. Alexander Waibl's team were surprisingly beaten 2:3 (26:28, 28:26, 25:15, 23:25, 19:21) by VC Wiesbaden in the first quarter-final match in front of 2735 spectators in their home arena. The Hessians now lead the best-of-three series 1:0 and can clinch a place in the semi-finals with another win at home on Wednesday, while the Elbe club can only force a deciding game in Dresden on Easter Sunday evening with a win.

From the outset, Wiesbaden, who finished sixth in the preliminary round, came out with a lot of pressure, showed very good tactics and, in particular, diagonal attacker Izabella Rapacz (32 points) was able to overcome Dresden's defense time and again. In the second set, however, the DSC women fought back to equalize the set, thanks in particular to their middle blocker Tia Jimerson (25 points). After Alexander Waibl's charges then dominated the third set somewhat more clearly, the Hessians came back in the fourth. The six-time German champions from Saxony missed a few chances in the decisive tie-break, initially fending off four match points from their opponents, but then failed to capitalize on three of their own opportunities. After 136 hard-fought minutes, Tanja Großer converted the fifth match point to win.