{"id":367569,"date":"2025-08-23T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367569\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:45:15","slug":"turkiye-crushes-spain-3-0-in-womens-volleyball-world-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367569\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye crushes Spain 3-0 in Women\u2019s Volleyball World Championship opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players of T\u00fcrkiye celebrate after a point during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship volleyball match T\u00fcrkiye and Spain at Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on August 23, 2025. (AA Photo)<\/p>\n<p>\n                    August 23, 2025 06:10 PM GMT+03:00\n                <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-share.svg\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s National Women\u2019s Volleyball Team defeated Spain 3-0 on Saturday in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/sports\/turkiye-to-face-spain-in-womens-volleyball-world-championship-opener-3205782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first match of the World Championship<\/a> in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The team started strong in the opening set, racing to an 8-2 lead. Spain narrowed the gap to 16-12 midway through, but T\u00fcrkiye, powered by Ebrar Karakurt, Yaprak Erkek, and Melissa Vargas, pulled away to win 25-18.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"newspicture\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/853;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/turkiye-crushes-spain-3-0-in-womens-volleyball-world-championship-opener-3205831_202508231809_1.jpg\" alt=\"Yaprak Erkek (20) and Zehra Gunes (18) of T\u00fcrkiye in action during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship volleyball match T\u00fcrkiye and Spain at Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on August 23, 2025. (AA Photo)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-fotobuyut.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Yaprak Erkek (20) and Zehra Gunes (18) of T\u00fcrkiye in action during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship volleyball match T\u00fcrkiye and Spain at Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on August 23, 2025. (AA Photo)\n                <\/p>\n<p>The second set began evenly, tied 5-5, before T\u00fcrkiye surged ahead 16-9. Maintaining control, the team closed the set 25-20.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye seals the match to face Bulgaria<\/p>\n<p>Spain responded in the third set, taking an early 6-3 lead with sharp serves. T\u00fcrkiye rallied to tie at 8-8 and then gained momentum behind Karakurt\u2019s serves, stretching the score to 17-11.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"newspicture\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/853;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/turkiye-crushes-spain-3-0-in-womens-volleyball-world-championship-opener-3205831_202508231809_2.jpg\" alt=\"Players of Spain celebrate after a point during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship match between T\u00fcrkiye and Spain at the Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on August 23, 2025. (AA Photo)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-fotobuyut.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    Players of Spain celebrate after a point during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship match between T\u00fcrkiye and Spain at the Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on August 23, 2025. (AA Photo)\n                <\/p>\n<p>Spain fought back, cutting the deficit to 18-16 and later tying the set 23-23. But T\u00fcrkiye held its nerve, sealing the set 25-23 and the match 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye will face Bulgaria in its second group match on Monday, August 25.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-share.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>August 23, 2025 06:36 PM GMT+03:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players of T\u00fcrkiye celebrate after a point during the FIVB Women\u2019s World Volleyball Championship volleyball match T\u00fcrkiye and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-367569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078858541401211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}